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Say that an initial POD is that Apollo 8 doesn't go circumlunar (that was not the original mission profile, but the LM was not ready to go LEO testing yet). And then say that the Zond program (soyuz 7K-L1) gotten two cosmonauts circumlunar and returned them to earth safely before Apollo 10 (yes, a stretch, but not impossible. After all, Zond 7 did succeed in getting back without going through anything that would kill cosmonauts).


What would have happened?
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