Also, Shepard achieved a less-celebrated record on that day: briefest human spaceflight mission, of only 15-minutes' duration. In April 1970, NASA's ill-fated Apollo 13 capsule swung around the far side of the moon at an altitude of 158 miles (254 km), putting the astronauts 248,655 miles (400,171 km) away from Earth. It's the farthest our species has ever been from our home planet.
Description. City Year is an education-focused, nonprofit organization that partners with public schools to help keep students in school and on track to graduate.rowth Plan: In 2009, City Year launched the In School & On Track Campaign with a goal of reaching 50% of the off-track students in all of City Yearâs locations.
Positive social change The City Year national leadership conference is taking place in Boston this week, celebrating the 25th anniversary of City Year. CY is a strong example of a social-change organization that is in the process of actually making an impact on a key social problem. CY's goal is specific and audacious: to improve the high school graduation rate in the nation's poorest-performing schools.