I remember this used to be a huge deal that was touted in ads in National Geographic and elsewhere. Only a Hasselblad was good enough for such a critical mission, was the thinking. Do they still do that or are there so many video cameras now that they don’t bother?
Used to but I think they currently use one of the Kodak digital cameras that is built on a Nikon body for still work. Video cameras with still image capture are not a substitute for a professional still camera.
Hassleblad still exists but is a shell of its former self with perhaps a tenth of the employees they used to have.
I remember when the Nikon F3 was touted as being the official space shuttle camera. Unfortunately when the first shuttles flew they elected to take the old warhorse, non-electronic Nikon F which had been out of production almost 15 years by that time.
As of May 2001 NASA was using the Kodak DSC 660 The article is about the microdrive storage media but mentions the camera. The 660 is build on a Nikon F5 body.