"We would like to land the shuttle tomorrow in Florida, " said flight director Wayne Hale.
Lewis, 55, often starts his day with a call to his flight director, Bob Cardin.
"It lit up the Kennedy Space Center, " said shuttle flight director, Mike Leinbach.
On Wednesday, Nasa flight director John Shannon said photographs of the shuttle taken by the crew had found no apparent damage.
Gerry Griffin was a Flight Director for the Apollo Missions and is a former Director of the Johnson Space Center in Houston.
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The British pilots are being supported by flight director Clive Bailey and weather expert Luc Trullemans in the Flight Control Centre at a Bristol hotel.
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Mr Farnworth said that a highlight of the two-week project was a tour of Nasa's old mission control, during which he got to sit in the flight director's chair.
Bobak Ferdowsi, a flight director who changed his hair style for every milestone in the mission, had buzzed the sides of his head and dyed it with stars and stripes.
The discovery spurred teams at NASA, over a busy 24-hour stretch, to go into "a full-court press to understand what the failure is" and how to address it, NASA flight director Norm Knight said Friday.
It's traditional to open up cans of peanuts and pass them around to the team at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory responsible for overseeing the landing of the rover, said David Oh, lead flight director for the mission, earlier this week.
The seat liners are key because the escape module -- if needed -- would land on the ground and the seats need to fit precisely to properly protect a returning astronaut or cosmonaut, according to Mark Ferring, the flight director for Alpha.
But as recently as Monday, flight deputy director Viktor Blagov told Itar-Tass that no unexpected "downfall" was likely.
"Congratulations to all the teams involved, " said Pier-Paolo Emanuelli, the flight operations director.
Joseph Burns, managing director for flight standards and technology at United Airlines, which has texting capabilities on most of its wide-body fleet.
"We had a very hot fight internally on whether or not to hide mistakes, " says Samson Yeh, CAL's director of flight training.
"We are comforted by the knowledge we have brought our seven friends home, " said Bob Cabana, director of Flight Crew Operations at the Johnson Space Center in Houston.
"Bigelow is absolutely viable, " says Phil McAlister, NASA's acting director for commercial space flight development.
"You can't get a fine if you don't fly the flight, " said John Hansman, director of the International Center for Air Transportation at MIT.
In Nigeria, Abdulmutallab checked no baggage on his trip that originated in Lagos on a KLM flight to Amsterdam, where he changed planes to the Northwest flight, according to Harold Demuren, director-general of Nigeria's Civil Aviation Authority.
The director was removed from a Southwest flight and the implication was that his girth required him to purchase two seats.
"Together, we proved that a human in freefall can break the speed of sound returning from near space, going through a transonic phase and landing safely on the ground, " said Dr Jonathan Clark, a former space shuttle flight surgeon and the Red Bull Stratos medical director.
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Shrewsbury's commercial director Alan Stevenson, a former top-flight keeper with Burnley back in the 1970s, reckons that Hart has the chance to be an England keeper for 10 years.
On his way back to Sweden, the director had an unexpected layover in London after his flight got canceled.
On Saturday night, Kevin Smith, the indie director of Clerks fame, boarded a Southwest Airlines flight from San Francisco to Los Angeles (Oakland airport to Burbank airport).
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Philip Nuber, director of the Defense Mapping Agency, says that using this virtual technology in flight simulation can help soldiers in peace time as well as war.
Lake Charles Regional Airport Executive Director Heath Allen told CNN affiliate KPLC that three of the injured were members of the flight crew.
Monday's reported launch of the monkey -- who was kept in a "completely sealed" capsule that produces oxygen and absorbs carbon dioxide, with his vital signs recorded throughout the flight -- is part of a larger effort to someday send humans into space, said Iranian Space Agency Director Hamid Fazeli.
Deanne Stuart, an assistant director for the Iowa State Alumni Association, said her group could not generate enough interest for a charter flight this year.
Yoshikai Masanori, deputy director general of Japan's Ministry of International Trade and Industry, warned that there could be capital flight from economies that were seen as not doing enough to overcome the problem.
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