NASA Banking on Commercial Crew To Grow ISS Population

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NASA is banking on its Commercial Crew Program to increase international space station (ISS) crew capacity to seven from the current six - something that could happen as soon as 2017 if Congress is willing to dramatically increase the program's budget, the agency's top human spaceflight official said. "We would definitely increase the crew size on ISS to seven crew members," William Gerstenmaier, associate administrator for NASA's Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate, said June 20 during a hearing before the Senate Commerce science and space subcommittee.