If you go back to Earth you should get more crew.  If you're out of landers and are too poor to buy a new one, the commander will give you a free lander.

Okay, I tried the trick with crew pods, but crew pods come empty.  I cannot buy or switch to my existing crew pods to get more crew.  Also, this is turning out to be a game breaking situation, since I can't land on planets to continue any other "quest" I'm on.  I'm basically stuck.

Stardock, Am I completely stuck?

I'm on an early build.  I didn't see any fixes for this issue, though, in the change logs.  Also, if I upgrade, I loose all my progress, no?

I didn't know that.  I'd've sworn I read that many of the patches break old saves.  So, if I update, what is the fix?  Can somebody give me more people?  Can I land with less than a full lander crew?  Does it introduce the bug Inferno83 mentioned which provides crew with crew pods?  I didn't see a fix for this in the change logs, but I might have missed it.

Can somebody tell me if updating is going to affect this issue? (and confirm that updating will not break my existing save games)?