re: NASA appears to be trying to resurrect the SR-71 blackbird program

They crashed one of the few WB-57 high altitude (68,000') aircraft earlier this year that they flew out of both Edwards and Ellington. When you see those high altitude videos of incoming space capsules and the parachutes, if it's in color, yours truly put that camera in the front of the aircraft in the ball gimbal that brings you those images. That camera can see in color in a moonless night sky.

WB-57 gets a belly rub from the runway