If you're a fan of late night TV, you might have caught asegment on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, where an "audience member" named Milky J extols the virtues of the Hubble Space Telescope (i.e. "Need an image of the Orion Nebula? Hubble gotchu!"). There followed a whole series of segments, including a rap video about Hubble, and a shout-out wherein Milky J gets very upset that Hubble might be replaced by the James Webb Space, er Satellite. (Hey! Webb isn't a replacement! It's a successor!)

We knew about this last segment, because we invited the actor who plays the Hubble Gotchu guy to come out to visit the the full-scale model in NYC at the World Science Fair in June and meet with some project people. After that, we invited them down to Goddard where they spent the entire day shooting another segment for the show! It aired on 8/2/10 - we are working on getting permission to post the video here since the online links to it have expired.

Here are some links to the coverage of the making of this Hubble Gotchu segment.

• Maggie Masetti's blog for NASA Blueshift behind-the-scenes on the day of filming.
• Geeked on Goddard's blog about the filming. This blog text is on the NASA Portal as well.
• Phil Plait's blog about the video segment.

• TV Guide gave it a cheer!

• Another pic of the JWST people in the segment.

• The blog on the NBC site with the clip.

• Goddard View article (Volume 6, Issue 7, August.)