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NOVA Apollo’s Daring Mission NOVA tells the in-depth story of Apollo’s riskiest mission: a sixteenweek race to beat the Soviets and send three men in a tiny space capsule to, around and back from a moon a quarter of a million miles away – before the year 1968 came to a close. The U.S. space program suffered a bitter setback when Apollo 1 ended in a deadly fire during a pre-launch runthrough. In disarray and threatened by the prospect of a Soviet Union victory in the space race, NASA decided upon a radical and risky change of plan: turn Apollo 8 from an Earth-orbit mission into a daring sprint to the moon while relying on untried new technologies. Suddenly
everything hinged on Apollo 8. To mark the 50th anniversary of this historic mission, Apollo 8’s astronauts, Commander Frank Borman, Command Module Pilot James Lovell and Lunar Module Pilot William Anders reconvene and tell the story through a fascinating and untapped prism: the incredible science, extraordinary engineering feats and huge technological challenges that enabled them to go where no one had ever gone before.
SDPB1: Wednesday, December 26, 8pm (7 MT) SDPB2: Thursday, December 27, 6 & 11pm (5 & 10 MT)
(Continued from page 5) Originally from Belle Fourche, Severin earned her degree in journalism from SDSU while interning for SDPB Radio News. After serving as SDPB’s legislative reporter, Severin earned a Master’s in Business Administration from the University of Nebraska-Omaha. She and her husband returned to Sioux Falls, where she headed Project Food Forest before returning to her first love, journalism. She’s excited about meeting and learning from business owners and others who guest on Making a Living, broadcast live each month from SDPB’s Sioux Falls Studios. “Sioux Falls is growing,” says Severin. “We have a lot of economic development and entrepreneurial stories out of here, and we want to talk with people who are starting their businesses and address important workforce development topics, not just in Sioux Falls, but throughout South Dakota.” Severin is excited about Making a Living’s format. “First, it’s a full hour. We don’t often get time to delve in and discuss one issue like this. We really dig deeper into the layers. Second, when panelists meet in a face-to-face discussion, as opposed to a reporter filing a report, it’s interesting and awesome to see ideas spark and panelists asking each other questions, bouncing ideas. It makes for deeper and richer conversations.” Join Making a Living at SDPB’s Sioux Falls Studios, 601 N. Phillips Avenue, in December for a discussion about “Angel Investors in South Dakota.” See SDPB.org for details.
Governor’s Budget Address SDPB broadcasts live Governor Dennis Daugaard’s final budget address, in which the governor proposes his state budget for Fiscal Year 2020. Tune in at 1pm (noon MT) on Tuesday, December 4, on SDPB1, SDPB Radio and streaming on SDPB.org and SD.net. SDPB1 rebroadcasts the address at 10pm (9 MT) on Tuesday, Dec. 4. Coverage of the Governor’s Budget Address is made possible, in part, by the South Dakota Bar Foundation, Touchstone Energy, SDN Communications and Missouri River Energy. December 2018 21
