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The following is an excerpt from an editorial that appeared in the Orlando Sentinel on Tuesday:

For NASA, after years of struggling for more funding, the planets finally may be aligning. It's vital that the agency not do anything to squander this chance.

Last week a Senate committee recommended a big boost of $2.6 billion in NASA's budget, including an extra $1 billion to speed up its next manned space program, Constellation. The full House approved the same increase in legislation it overwhelmingly passed earlier in the month.

Accelerating Constellation's development is crucial. Otherwise, NASA is projecting a five-year gap between the retirement of space shuttles in 2010 and the launch of the next manned program.

In that interim, U.S. astronauts would be stuck hitching rides aboard Russian space vehicles. The U.S. space program would be vulnerable to the whims of an authoritarian regime and vehicles that have recently suffered mechanical failures.