One of the things I miss about watching Space Shuttle launches as a kid: the lack of vamping anchors breathlessly filling airtime during a countdown. You just watched the vehicle breathing on the pad and listened to controllers trading jargon on the ground loop. If something happened worth commentary, the NASA PAO would chime in to clarify. There was something so mystical about that peek into the world of calm (and even dull!) professionalism, instead of the slick sales-pitch launches of today.