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Beginning with the first manned <a href="/wiki/Project_Gemini" title="Project Gemini">Gemini</a> mission in 1965, commemorative medallions were prepared for the astronauts at their request. These were produced by a company only known as Fliteline and were struck either in a pewter-colored base metal, sometimes painted a gold color, or <a href="/wiki/Sterling_silver" title="Sterling silver">sterling silver</a>, and were flown on all 10 manned Gemini missions. The Robbins Company of Attleboro, Massachusetts, was contracted in 1968 to produce commemorative medallions beginning with <a href="/wiki/Apollo_7" title="Apollo 7">Apollo 7</a>, the first manned Apollo flight since the <a href="/wiki/Apollo_1_disaster" title="Apollo 1 disaster" class="mw-redirect">Apollo 1 disaster</a>. 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This faint constellation, which has no <a href="/wiki/Apparent_magnitude" title="Apparent magnitude">first magnitude</a> <a href="/wiki/Star" title="Star">stars</a>, is located between <a href="/wiki/Virgo_(constellation)" title="Virgo (constellation)">Virgo</a> to the west and <a href="/wiki/Scorpius" title="Scorpius">Scorpius</a> to the east. Both <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Rome" title="Ancient Rome">Roman</a> and <a href="/wiki/Babylonian_astronomy" title="Babylonian astronomy">Babylonian astronomy</a> likened the constellation to a pair of scales, though the <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Greeks" title="Ancient Greeks" class="mw-redirect">Ancient Greeks</a> held it to be <a href="/wiki/Scorpius" title="Scorpius">the scorpion's</a> claws. 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Many other Wikipedias are available; some of the largest are listed below.</p> <ul> <li id="lang-3">More than 1,000,000 articles: <div class="hlist inline"> <ul> <li><a class="external text" href="//de.wikipedia.org/wiki/"><span class="autonym" title="German (de:)" lang="de" xml:lang="de">Deutsch</span></a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="//es.wikipedia.org/wiki/"><span class="autonym" title="Spanish (es:)" lang="es" xml:lang="es">Español</span></a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="//fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/"><span class="autonym" title="French (fr:)" lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Français</span></a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="//it.wikipedia.org/wiki/"><span class="autonym" title="Italian (it:)" lang="it" xml:lang="it">Italiano</span></a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="//nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/"><span class="autonym" title="Dutch (nl:)" lang="nl" xml:lang="nl">Nederlands</span></a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="//ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/"><span class="autonym" title="Japanese (ja:)" lang="ja" xml:lang="ja">日本語</span></a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="//pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/"><span class="autonym" title="Polish (pl:)" lang="pl" xml:lang="pl">Polski</span></a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="//ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/"><span class="autonym" title="Russian (ru:)" lang="ru" xml:lang="ru">Русский</span></a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="//sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/"><span class="autonym" title="Swedish (sv:)" lang="sv" xml:lang="sv">Svenska</span></a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="//vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/"><span class="autonym" title="Vietnamese (vi:)" lang="vi" xml:lang="vi">Tiếng Việt</span></a></li> </ul> </div> </li> <li id="lang-2">More than 250,000 articles: <div class="hlist inline"> <ul> <li><a class="external text" href="//ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/"><span class="autonym" title="Arabic (ar:)" lang="ar" xml:lang="ar">العربية</span></a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="//id.wikipedia.org/wiki/"><span class="autonym" title="Indonesian (id:)" lang="id" xml:lang="id">Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="//ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/"><span class="autonym" title="Malay (ms:)" lang="ms" xml:lang="ms">Bahasa Melayu</span></a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="//ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/"><span class="autonym" title="Catalan (ca:)" lang="ca" xml:lang="ca">Català</span></a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="//cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/"><span class="autonym" title="Czech (cs:)" lang="cs" xml:lang="cs">Čeština</span></a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="//fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/"><span class="autonym" title="Persian (fa:)" lang="fa" xml:lang="fa">فارسی</span></a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="//ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/"><span class="autonym" title="Korean (ko:)" lang="ko" xml:lang="ko">한국어</span></a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="//hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/"><span class="autonym" title="Hungarian (hu:)" lang="hu" xml:lang="hu">Magyar</span></a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="//no.wikipedia.org/wiki/"><span class="autonym" title="Norwegian (no:)" lang="no" xml:lang="no">Norsk bokmål</span></a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="//pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/"><span class="autonym" title="Portuguese (pt:)" lang="pt" xml:lang="pt">Português</span></a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="//ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/"><span class="autonym" title="Romanian (ro:)" lang="ro" xml:lang="ro">Română</span></a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="//sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/"><span class="autonym" title="Serbian (sr:)" lang="sr" xml:lang="sr">Srpski</span></a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="//sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/"><span class="autonym" title="Serbo-Croatian (sh:)" lang="sh" xml:lang="sh">Srpskohrvatski</span></a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="//fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/"><span class="autonym" title="Finnish (fi:)" lang="fi" xml:lang="fi">Suomi</span></a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="//tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/"><span class="autonym" title="Turkish (tr:)" lang="tr" xml:lang="tr">Türkçe</span></a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="//uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/"><span class="autonym" title="Ukrainian (uk:)" lang="uk" xml:lang="uk">Українська</span></a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="//zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/"><span class="autonym" title="Chinese (zh:)" lang="zh" xml:lang="zh">中文</span></a></li> </ul> </div> </li> <li id="lang-1">More than 50,000 articles: <div class="hlist inline"> <ul> <li><a class="external text" href="//bs.wikipedia.org/wiki/"><span class="autonym" title="Bosnian (bs:)" lang="bs" xml:lang="bs">Bosanski</span></a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="//bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/"><span class="autonym" title="Bulgarian (bg:)" lang="bg" xml:lang="bg">Български</span></a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="//da.wikipedia.org/wiki/"><span class="autonym" title="Danish (da:)" lang="da" xml:lang="da">Dansk</span></a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="//et.wikipedia.org/wiki/"><span class="autonym" title="Estonian (et:)" lang="et" xml:lang="et">Eesti</span></a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="//el.wikipedia.org/wiki/"><span class="autonym" title="Greek (el:)" lang="el" xml:lang="el">Ελληνικά</span></a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="//simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/"><span class="autonym" title="Simple English (simple:)" lang="simple" xml:lang="simple">English (simple form)</span></a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="//eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/"><span class="autonym" title="Esperanto (eo:)" lang="eo" xml:lang="eo">Esperanto</span></a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="//eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/"><span class="autonym" title="Basque (eu:)" lang="eu" xml:lang="eu">Euskara</span></a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="//gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/"><span class="autonym" title="Galician (gl:)" lang="gl" xml:lang="gl">Galego</span></a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="//he.wikipedia.org/wiki/"><span class="autonym" title="Hebrew (he:)" lang="he" xml:lang="he">עברית</span></a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="//hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/"><span class="autonym" title="Croatian (hr:)" lang="hr" xml:lang="hr">Hrvatski</span></a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="//lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/"><span class="autonym" title="Latvian (lv:)" lang="lv" xml:lang="lv">Latviešu</span></a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="//lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/"><span class="autonym" title="Lithuanian (lt:)" lang="lt" xml:lang="lt">Lietuvių</span></a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="//nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/"><span class="autonym" title="Norwegian Nynorsk (nn:)" lang="nn" xml:lang="nn">Norsk nynorsk</span></a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="//sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/"><span class="autonym" title="Slovak (sk:)" lang="sk" xml:lang="sk">Slovenčina</span></a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="//sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/"><span class="autonym" title="Slovenian (sl:)" lang="sl" xml:lang="sl">Slovenščina</span><