TV star

The year is 1990 ( +/- 1 year).  I am working in a lab at Purdue, making mirrors for astrophysicists.  They are looking for faint blue light released when cosmic rays hit the Earth's atmosphere.  A very (now) dated show called "Beyond 2000" comes to do a profile of the scientists I work for.  They needed some action shots and so a star was born (I appear briefly in 3 scenes: don't blink!)