dv said:

Cymek said:

dv said:

NASA was very specific about the pronunciation of Project Gemini. They insisted that the last syllable be pronounced “nee” rather than “nigh”.
They never explained this.

Isn’t that how they pronounce the word

Who? No one in English has pronounced it like that.
Maybe it was ze Germans.

Looking it up it does seem NASA used the nee even though they used eye elsewhere.
To separate it from the general usage perhaps