Spanish Market combines art, tradition, spirituality

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ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) All over New Mexico, theres inspiration for creating art whether its through music, food, paintings or carvings. Those last two examples there will be on display at this weekends winter Spanish Market.

Its art that has been created for hundreds of years in New Mexico the same innovation that went into making it from the beginning carries on today.

In the early days when the missions were being built, there was difficulty in getting statues built for them, those type of religious artifacts for the missions and so this art has kind of evolved, said Adan Carriaga.

Creating the artwork dates back literally hundreds of years and is pretty much only found in this part of the country in New Mexico. Its all going to be showcased at this weekends Spanish Market.

First of all, I think this kind of art needs more exposure for people to know that native people in this, here in New Mexico, can create this kind of work to see retablos and bultos and straw applicae, tin work, theres a lot of it, the various forms of art that we do, and I hope they enjoy it, said artist Rodolfo Parga.

While it may be an art form that was created hundreds of years ago, its still evolving.

I learned a new innovative technique which allowed me to combine essentially all the elements of traditional art and then finalized by using straw applicae for design, said artist Charlie Sanchez Jr.

For some, they discovered they had the gift while completing other works of art.

I wasnt really a santero, I was more of a furniture maker, but I got encouraged by them to start doing this. Ive been carving most of my life so that came in pretty handy, said artist Federico Prudencio.

Then, theres the next generation carrying on the tradition.

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Healing touch: Arbon & Goodson Energy Practitioners

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Stoughton's Elizabeth Goodson says that her position as minister of Stoughton's Grace United Church and her partnership in her business, Arbon & Goodson, Energy Practitioners, allows her to explore, explain, and appreciate many aspects of spirituality and healing.

I am a partner in a spirituality business with Hazel Arbon, who works in Regina and lives in Vibank. She is also a United Church minister. We are colleagues in the ministry and we started planning creative worship services together, when she was in Weyburn and I was in Kipling.

The pair have almost 50 years combined ministry experience in the United Church of Canada and each have completed two years of specialized training to become spiritual directors. Both have completed Healing Pathways training to become Healing Touch practitioners, both are reiki masters, and both have completed a one-year program through Stonebridge College, UK to become certified Crystal Healer practitioners.

We've done three seminar retreats here in Stoughton and two events in other locations, she adds.

Because the United Church is very accepting and very curious about all types of spirituality, I have been able to train as a reiki master and I am also qualified in healing touch, crystal healing, and tarot exploration. My interest in these areas has been growing for years. My grandmother was interested in all this stuff. People are eager to learn more, and I want to help them get spiritual nourishment.

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Space, the final frontier for 3-D printing

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(CNN) -- We're used to seeing manufacturer tags that read "Made in the USA," "Made in Taiwan" or "Made in..." just about anywhere on the globe. But this week, for the first time, an item can read "Made in Space."

The International Space Station's 3-D printer created the first object to be made in orbit on Tuesday. The U.S. space agency released a picture of astronaut Barry "Butch" Wilmore holding the newly printed piece, a white printer part emblazoned with the words "Made in Space" and "NASA."

It's not just a novelty.

"There are many challenges about living and working in space, including when a part or a tool is broken or simply is not working correctly, and the spare part is 200 miles away, here on the surface of the Earth," said Bill Hubscher of NASA's ISS Program Science Office at Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, in a video posted on NASA.gov.

"Explorers traveling to Mars or to asteroids will face these same challenges," but they won't be able to get goods from a resupply ship, he said.

NASA's International Space Station 3-D printer project manager Niki Werkheiser says it's a historic achievement because it allows engineers "to e-mail our hardware to space instead of launching it."

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Microgravity University: Testing the Future of Spaceflight in Zero G

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How do you test a new method for CPR in space without actually going into space? You take flight in a microgravity plane, obviously. For the last 20 years, NASA's Reduced Gravity Office has opened up its zero-g planes to college students from around the country, who get the once in a lifetime opportunity to test physical experiments in a weightless environment. Yes, they get to play with fire in zero g. Lucky...

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This year Zach Barbeau, an engineering student from Oklahoma State University, reached out and asked if I'd like to ride along with his team. I couldn't have said yes fast enough. And it's a good thing I did, because it's possible that was the last hurrah for this beautiful and unique science program.

NASA'S Reduced Gravity Education Flight Program was founded in 1995, and every year since then every year it's given students (and teachers) a chance to propose, design, build, test, and fly a microgravity experiment on a "Weightless Wonder" zero-G plane. This is how it earned the moniker Microgravity University. This year, the guidelines stipulated that the experiments focus on improving human spaceflight.

Studentsmostly engineering students, but there are some exceptionsfrom universities all over the country form teams of six (five fliers plus one alternate) and submit project proposals to the space agency. We're talking about solving major problems. Here's are some of this year's projects.

The team wanted to see if creating an electric field would keep dust particles off of a surface in reduced gravity. That can't be tested in Earth's gravity, so this was the only platform (short of going into low-Earth orbit) on which they could test this theory.

One team's experiment, ready to be bolted to the Weightless Wonder

When the teams finally arrive at NASA for flight week, they have to defend their projects to upwards of 20 individual engineers and scientists. Some experiments must be rebuilt several times before they're approved. Nobody sleeps very much.

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Orion's First Flight: NASA's new crewed deep space vehicle is ready for its live-broadcasted trial by fire

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Friday, November 28, 2014, 11:54 AM - It's been a long wait, but on Thursday, December 4, at just after 7 am, Eastern Time, NASA's new deep space crew spacecraft, Orion, will be lifting off for its very first test flight - from launch all the way to splashdown - and we will be able to watch the entire thing live!

It's been nearly 42 years since humans have flown into deep space - that is, beyond low-Earth orbit - on board the Apollo 17 spacecraft. Working on the premise that it's about time that humanity stretched its 'cosmic legs' again, NASA has been developing Orion - a crewed spacecraft meant to deliver astronauts to the Moon, to an asteroid or to Mars (or possibly even further).

In less than a week, the first Orion spacecraft will be launching from Cape Canaveral in Florida, on its very first test flight. Over the course of about four and a half hours, it will achieve low-Earth orbit, fly around the Earth, and then boost out to reach a maximum distance from the planet of over 5,700 kilometres (nearly 20 times the height of the International Space Station's orbit). It will then come back to Earth, travelling at around 32,000 km/h when it hits the atmosphere, using a heat shield to slow itself as it plunges towards the surface. Roughly four minutes before the end of the mission, it will deploy its parachutes to slow down the rest of the way, making a soft splashdown in the Pacific Ocean.

The great thing about all of this? We will be able to watch it all, live, on NASA TV.

CLICK BELOW TO WATCH: NASA's highlights and timetable for the Orion's 'trial by fire'.

This launch will be an uncrewed test, so no astronauts will be aboard. However, there are a few items going along for the ride.

According to NASA, several of the cargo lockers on board the capsule will contain 'commemorative' items:

One of the lockers carries a radiation experiment designed by the students who won the Exploration Design Challenge, an initiative for students to research and design ways to protect astronauts on future missions from radiation. Another radiation experiment designed by NASA called BIRD, for battery-operated independent radiation detector, will evaluate the environment inside the locker as Orion passes through the Van Allen belts experiencing higher doses of radiation than spacecraft that orbit closer to Earth, such as the International Space Station. Several artistic works commissioned by Lockheed Martin will be aboard, including a recording of "We Shall Overcome" by Denyce Graves arranged by Nolan Williams. The arrangement features the words "We Shall Live in Peace," a theme common throughout America's civilian space program and efforts. Several poems by poet Maya Angelou will also be aboard, including Brave and Startling Truth. A recording of "Mars" from Gustav Holst's "The Planets" performed by the National Symphony Orchestra will also be carried on Orion, along with a copy of a poem by Marshall Jones and a small sculpture by Ed Dwight called Pioneer Woman. The works will help expand the cultural connection between the arts and science. The flight test also will carry several items that will be used to inspire future generations. NASA and Sesame Street have joined forces to help promote the importance of studying science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) and teach students about the importance of human spaceflight. Cookie Monsters cookie, Ernies rubber ducky, Slimey the Worm and Grovers cape will fly some 3,600 miles above Earth and come back to take prized spots on the Sesame Street set where millions of children will watch.

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