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• The countdown for the Atlas V launch begins Monday morning from the Vandenberg Air Force Base along California's central coast.
• The Landsat satellite is the eighth of its kind to be launched since 1972 to track glaciers, forest fires, crop production and coastlines. Unlike its predecessors, the latest carries more powerful sensors and can return more images.
• For the past four decades, the polar-orbiting Landsat satellites have documented changes to Earth's surface including the effects of deforestation and urban sprawl.
• The $855 million mission is managed by NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey.
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• RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) -- A Rapid City man will be leading the effort to raise money for the South Dakota State Historical Society.
• Michael Lewis has been named the president of the South Dakota Historical Society Foundation. The foundation is the nonprofit fundraising partner of the South Dakota State Historical Society. Both are headquartered at the Cultural Heritage Center in Pierre.
• Lewis' emphasis will be on fund raising and public relations for the foundation.
• Lewis previously worked for Citibank in South Dakota and US Bankcorp in Fargo, N.D. He is retired from the South Dakota National Guard/U.S. Army Reserve.
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• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- A global company with a division specializing in protein and flaxseed is breaking ground Monday on a 40,000-square-foot cereal ingredient processing facility in Sioux Falls
• The Glanbia Nutritionals Ingredient Technologies plant in northwest Sioux Falls is expected to begin operations in July. City and company officials will be gathering Monday for a 4 p.m. groundbreaking ceremony at the site.
• Sioux Falls Development Foundation president Slater Barr says it's an exciting project for the community.
• Glanbia Nutritionals is a division of of Kilkenny, Ireland-based Glanbia, a $4.2 billion company with operations in 14 countries and exports to 130 countries.
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