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Project Gemini was NASA's second human spaceflight program, however if you listen to recordings of the flight engineers, and astronauts talk about the missions, you'll learn it is NOT pronounced "Gemini" as per the third astrological sign in the zodiac, it's pronounced "Jimany" as in Jiminy...

I was raised on Star Trek too... The first episode of TNG was aired 5 days after I was born, and according to my parents they used to prop me up in front of the TV each episode and I'd watch it. I was never that big of a fan of DS9, and would rate VOY as the best story arc of any Star Trek...

Where is this competition thread for the posting of space facts? :cool:

Steve here! Met Stevie through Eve Online originally... Who'd have thought a space nerd would play a space game huh! Excited with all things space, fiction or reality! Watched the whole spacewalk beginning to end last Friday, have been to Kennedy Space Centre on my birthday the last 2 years...