Commercial module could help raise station crew size, Koptev says

Adding a proposed commercial module to the International Space Station, along with an extra Soyuz escape craft, would allow NASA and its international partners to boost the station's crew size from three to six as early as 2004, the head of Russia's space agency said Aug. 9. Russian contractor...

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