So which is it? How do you pronounce Gemini?

In “First Man,” the new film about the Neil Armstrong and the moon landing, astronauts and NASA officials say “GEM-uh-knee.” But the first pronunciation in the Webster’s New World College Dictionary Fifth Edition, the standard work used by The New York Times to settle such matters, the first pronunciation is GEM-uh-neye,” which is the way many of us say it. Or, to use the precise dictionary typography, jem′ə nī΄ versus jem′ənē΄.

Really, though, which is right?

The 10 crewed missions of the Gemini program, with capsules that carried two people into space in 1965 and 1966, never got the attention that the programs before and after it received. Mercury and the seven original astronauts had Tom Wolfe as chronicler in “The Right Stuff.” Apollo had the triumph of the Moon landing, the tragedy of Apollo 1 and the nail-biting return of crippled Apollo 13.

[Readers tell us what they remember about the moon landing]

Gemini, by contrast, is the middle child of the early space program, eager to please but apt to be ignored. And when it comes to saying the name aloud, there has always been some knee-eye confusion. In this newspaper, a seemingly authoritative 1965 article tried to resolve the “running debate” with a statement from NASA that the proper pronunciation is “‘Jiminy,’ as in ‘Jiminy Cricket.’”