He joined the Astronaut Corps in 1962 and first traveled into space in 1966 on Gemini 8.

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At any rate, the long-awaited BlackBerry Curve 8520 (which may or may not go by Gemini on T-Mobile) has finally found a dedicated landing page on its maker's website, and while the list of specifications aren't a surprise, there is one thing that caught our eye.

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During that era of rapid innovation, lives were sacrificed -- by test pilots in space and Gemini astronauts on the ground -- but the space program moved ahead at light speed.

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And it follows a profits warning on Tuesday by IT and management consultancy Cap Gemini, which prompted falls among technology stocks on European stock markets.

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According to research and consulting firm Cap Gemini, companies also plan to put a freeze on implementing new hardware and software until the rollover.

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The confirmation, based on analysis of 10 billion year-old dying RR Lyrae stars in the Gemini constellation, was done by an international team of astronomers who report their findings in The Astrophysical Journal.

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They flew on two suborbital and four Earth-orbital Mercury launches, nine Earth-orbital Gemini flights, two Earth-orbital Apollo tests, and two lunar-orbital tests that made those lunar surface landings possible.

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The new image, which scientists revealed on Wednesday (Jan. 9), was obtained on the night of Dec. 28 using a new adaptive optics system at the Gemini Observatory South telescope in Chile.

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