Gemini

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Gemini a northern constellation (the Twins), said to represent the twins Castor and Pollux, the Dioscuri, whose names are given to its two brightest stars. Also, in astrological thought, the third sign of the zodiac, which the sun enters about 21 May.

Gemini was also the name of a series of twelve manned American orbiting spacecraft, launched in the 1960s in preparation for the Apollo programme.

Gemini comes from Latin, and means ‘twins’.

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