Geminids Rho Geminids Lynx Auriga Taurus Orion Monoceros Canis Minor Cancer Gemini (Latin for twins, symbol , Unicode ♊) is one of the constellations of the zodiac. It is part of the winter sky, lying between Taurus to the west and the dim Cancer to the east, with Auriga and the near-invisible Lynx to the north and Monoceros and Canis Minor to the south. The Gemini program is named for it. Gemini ...

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Gemini: The Questioner

Key Phrase: I THINK

Gemini is ever-curious, and indicates the experience of diversity. The Mutable Air sign of the zodiac shows a high level of flexibility and cleverness. Gemini is ever-youthful, witty, inquisitive - and sometimes nervous. Symbolized by the Twins, this is the primary quality of duality, and can present at least two sides to every picture. Gemini can also play the prankster, and show a high degree of fickleness. Intellectual pursuits, mental gymnastics, and wordplay all engage Gemini, which is ruled by the planet Mercury. Versatility is its higher expression; its most frustrating expression is distractibility and a lack of focus. "Jack of all trades, master of none" can describe Gemini in its weaker form. But when positively focused, there is little which can compare with the articulate, incisive, and intuitive perception associated with this sign. The placement of Gemini in your chart shows your need for adaptability and versatility.

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Gemini: Gemini’s best quality is versatility. The worst quality is changeableness. A key phrase is “I think.” Being a mutable sign, Gemini is changeable, and this can be the best or worst of qualities. Your versatility allows you to learn a little about just about everything and to develop skills in many areas. This makes for a good executive or manger, as you are able to oversee multiple activities and keep track of many projects at once. Other people can almost see the wheels turning. Gemini appears to be open-minded. Yet a time comes when no more oddball ideas can be wedged into the system. Then Gemini draws upon skillful thought processes to decide what to keep and what to discard.

Gemini is a mental sign, often intellectually driven. The capacity for communication includes both listening and telling, and thus you make wonderful companions and writers. Where Taurus wants physical expression, Gemini seeks out mentally challenging activities. You like the learning process. Gemini is intuitive, able to see into the future and gauge the results of your actions – another worthy executive trait.

The Gemini temperament is volatile in the true meaning of this term. You can vaporize at a relatively low temperature and you seem to be able to fly. Some people see this as the fickleness of a butterfly flitting from one flower to the next. The strength is in the ability to rise above the pettiness of situations to see the larger picture. Your mantra might be, “It just doesn’t matter.” Gemini is dexterous of hand, eye and wit, able to turn a situation or conversation in a new direction at will.

In spite of apparent adaptability, Gemini is sensitive at heart. You are aware of what others are thinking and feeling, and often take a diplomatic path to avoid hurting others. This could be at your own expense, although you don’t let us know it. Tolerance should not be mistaken for a lack of emotional depth. Gemini’s part of the body is the arms and lungs. Monochromatic or bright colors are best.

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Neil Armstrong - Gemini 5. Main article: Gemini 5 The first crew assignment for Neil Armstrong was as backup Command Pilot for Gemini 5, with Elliot See as the backup Pilot. This was an eight-day mission, longer than any spaceflight up till that time, with a prime crew of Gordon Cooper and Pete Conrad. The assignments were announced on February 8, 1965, and from then until the launch on August 21, 1965, Armstrong and See trained to fly the mission in case the prime crew co ...

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Neil Armstrong, Neil Armstrong - Youth, Neil Armstrong - College, Neil Armstrong - Korea, Neil Armstrong - Test Pilot, Neil Armstrong - Astronaut selection and early training, Neil Armstrong - Gemini, Neil Armstrong - Gemini 5, Neil Armstrong - Gemini 8, Neil Armstrong - Gemini 11, Neil Armstrong - Early-Apollo program, Neil Armstrong - Apollo 11, Neil Armstrong - Life after Apollo, Neil Armstrong - Teaching, Neil Armstrong - Business activities, Neil Armstrong - Personal life, Neil Armstrong - Lawsuits, Neil Armstrong - Armstrong in popular culture, Neil Armstrong - Notes

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Since this constellation is easily viewable as two parallel stick figures [1], considering faint stars visible to the naked eye, it was associated with the myth of Castor and Polydeuces (also known as the Dioscuri). A myth of these twins heavily concerns cattle theft, and may be connected to early views of the Milky Way, as a herd of dairy cows or cattle, by which they are situated. The orientation of the constellation can vary (since they readily form stick figures whether leaning right or left), though the twins are usually viewed a ...

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The Coleco Gemini was a Atari 2600 clone manufactured by Coleco. Coleco Gemini - History. In 1982, Coleco released Expansion Module #1 for its Colecovision video game system using off-the-shelf components. Atari sued Coleco for patent infringement, however a court ruled that since Coleco used off-the-shelf components and not the same components found inside an Atari 2600, the Expansion Module #1 did not infringe on Atari's patents for the 2600. With this ruling, Coleco decided to make a stand-alone Atari 2600 clone and named it the Gemini. < ...

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Punarvasu is a Nakshatra in Hindu astronomy, that refers to the two brightest stars in the constellation of Gemini: Castor and Pollux. Other related archivesCastor, Gemini, Hindu, Nakshatra, Pollux, astronomy, stars

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Xi Geminorum (ξ Gem / ξ Geminorum) is a star in the constellation Gemini. It also has the traditional name Alzir. Xi Geminorum belongs to spectral class F6 and has apparent magnitude +3.4. It is 64 light years from Earth. Coordinates (J2000): Right ascension: 6h42m30s Declination: +12°57'0" Categories: Gemini constellation | Bayer objects ...

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Cleo Virginia Andrews (June 6, 1923 – 19 December 1986), better known as V. C. Andrews or Virginia C. Andrews is an American author. Most of her novels are Gothic horrors and family sagas, usually consisting of a series of five books, where the last book is a prequel explaining much of the events of the series. Most of her stories evolve around family secrets and forbidden love, and they often include a rags-to-riches story. Her novels are translated in many foreign languages including: French, Italian, German, Spanish, Japane ...

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• Virginia C. Andrews - The Logan series
• Virginia C. Andrews - The Orphans series
• Virginia C. Andrews - The Wildflowers series
• Virginia C. Andrews - The Hudson series
• Virginia C. Andrews - The Shooting Stars series
• Virginia C. Andrews - The DeBeers Series
• Virginia C. Andrews - The Broken Wing series
• Virginia C. Andrews - The Gemini series
• Virginia C. Andrews - The Shadows series
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Gemini

(Twins); third sign of the zodiac (approx. May 20 to June 20); of the airy element; ruler Mercury; keywords: awareness, communicating energy. Recognized strengths: quick-minded, versatile, alert, inventive, chatty, adaptable, sociable, energetic. Potential weaknesses: fickle, judgmental, easily scattered; over-commits

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GEMINI - turns; third sign of the zodiac; of the airy element; ruler Mercury; key words: awareness, communicating, energy. (NAD)

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GEMINI

A bipolar sign of opposites, hence the "twins." It is both creative (the twin with the lyre) and destructive (the twin with the club). It is the sign of all things pertaining to Hermes, Mercury or Thoth, that is, of intercourse between differing segments of reality or society and the intellect or intelligence: writing, communications media, bohemia, detection, medicine, fashion, crossroads, markets, theaters, dens of thieves, traveling, etc. Its element, of course, is air and its animal sometimes ascribed to the monkey (Thoth, the babboon-headed).

Well-known Geminians include: Mesmer, Elsa Maxwell, Bob Dylan, Emerson, Bennett Cerf, Gucci, Duchess of Windsor, Pauline Kael, Escher, Stravinsky, Pascal, Judy Garland, Velikovsky, Peter the Great, Allen Ginsberg, Josephine Baker, Christine Jorgensen, Bob Hope, Herman Wouk, Dante, Arthur Conan Doyle, Isadora Duncan, Dionne Quintuplets, Marilyn Monroe, Marquis de Sade, Sartre, Jefferson Davis.

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Gemini The Twins; third zodiacal sign, an airy, masculine, common or mutable sign, corresponding to the shoulders, lungs, and arms. It governs the west and is the diurnal house of Mercury.

In Sanskrit the third sign is called Mithuna (pair, couple, also male and female); in the Hebrew system, assigning the twelve sons of Jacob to the twelve signs of the zodiac, Simeon and Levi represent Gemini.

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The United States Air Force had an interest in the system, and decided to use their own modification of the spacecraft as the crew vehicle for the Manned Orbiting Laboratory. To this end, one of the unmanned Gemini spacecraft was refurbished and flown again atop a mockup of the MOL, sent into space by a Titan III-M. This was the first time a spacecraft went into space twice. The USAF also had the notion of adapting the Gemini spacecraft for trying out military applications, such as crude observation of the ground (no specialized recon ...

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Gemini 9A - Backup crew. James A. Lovell, Jr, Command Pilot Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr., Pilot ...

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Gemini 8 - Agena. It was five months since NASA had tried to launch an Agena and Gemini. This time everything worked perfectly. The Agena put itself into a 298-kilometer circular orbit and oriented itself to the correct attitude for the docking. The Gemini spacecraft itself was put into a 160 by 272 kilometres by its modified Titan II ICBM. Gemini ...

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Gemini 8 - Backup crew. Charles Conrad, Jr., Command Pilot Richard F. Gordon, Jr., Pilot ...

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Gemini 9A - Launch attempts. The first launch attempt of Gemini 9A was on June 1. The ATDA had launched perfectly into a 298 kilometre orbit, though telemetry from it indicated that the launched shroud had failed to open properly. But the Gemini spacecraft was not able to launch the same day as planned. At T-3 minutes, the ground computers could not contact the Gemini computers for some reason and the 40 second launch window o ...

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Gemini 7 - Backup crew. Edward H. White, Jr, Command Pilot Michael Collins, Pilot ...

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Gemini 11 - Backup crew. Neil A. Armstrong, Command Pilot William A. Anders, Pilot ...

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Gemini 11, Gemini 11 - Crew, Gemini 11 - Backup crew, Gemini 11 - Mission parameters, Gemini 11 - Docking, Gemini 11 - Space walk, Gemini 11 - Objectives, Gemini 11 - Experiments, Gemini 11 - Reentry, Gemini 11 - Insignia, Gemini 11 - Capsule location

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