On the road again + morning round-up

We're heading back to Rockville today (despite suggestions to the contrary). Here are some miscellaneous items found from a scan of the morning space web:

Atlantis arrives at our big outpost in the sky:
/-- STS-132 | Mission Status Center - Spaceflight Now
/-- STS-132 Shuttle Report | Atlantis approaching space station to build it bigger - Spaceflight Now

More space policy postings from Jeff Foust:
/-- Commercial vs. Ares? - Space Politics
/-- Mikulski unhappy about NASA contact termination plans - Space Politics

Paul Spudis reports on recent field studies in Arizona comparing instrument readings of features there to those made by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter on the Moon: Using the Earth to study the Moon - The Once and Future Moon/Air & Space Mag.

Canadian students are getting new opportunities to launch experiments on sounding rockets: Building Rockets for their Red Glare - Commercial Space.