Two Brendan Fraser movies, Journey to the Center of the Earth and Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, earned about the same at the box office.

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"It's a cigar box guitar, but it sounds like the hottest piece of kit on earth... it just takes over, it's amazing, it's like it's alive, " he said.

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Within that green box is a microplate reader, a workhorse appliance in labs on Earth but the first of its kind to work in the near-zero gravity at 250 miles up.

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