From: "John Smith" on Wed 8 Jun 2005 17:21

Well, all the astronauts are no code techs... guess those no-code'ers
are in good and technical company...

Not "all." :-)

Having a Tech license is part of their JOB. The JOB is
basically PR work, keeping civilians feeling good about
NASA (which needs all the public support it can get).

Astronauts have all the NASA comms they need, don't need
any ham bands via HTs to do their primary mission. :-)