George Smoot (red hair) checks out experiment in U2 with the help and advice of two NASA Ames/Lockheed personnel.

Experiment being lowered into the U2. George Smoot standing next to the steps to the cockpit with back to you. Others are the various U2 maintenance and operating crew.

U2 with experiment payloads Shown are the various payloads the NASA Ames U2 aircraft was actively flying at the time (circa 1979). Note the anisotropy package just in the front. This package was the only upwards looking instrument. The others were mostly Earth Resources instrumentation.