Comment by nine_k
1 day ago
Compare: "We are working on Project Paperclip" and "We are working on a paperclip". I suppose the former implies that what you're working on is not a literal paperclip (but a secret operation to snatch scientists).
So "Project Gemini" is not about, say, he constellation.
With modern two-random-word codenames we tended to just say things like "I'm working on Crystal Banana all next week"
(Crystal Banana was a local joke codename where I worked)
We would say "We're working on Paperclip."