If Apollo 1 was successful, which mission would be the landing?

Just curious.

Sincerely
Given the problems with the LM I'm not sure it would be much earlier than OTL. Though the number would probably be somewhere between seven and nine, with perhaps extra Low Earth or Lunar orbit missions first.

Though that assumes there's no equivalent of the Apollo 1 capsule disaster during one of the missions. Without Apollo 1's fire subsequent missions would have been just as vulnerable.

But I'm not techie so others will know more about the engineering issues.
 
The Block 1 CSM was in such bad shape in 1967 that even if by some miracle we sidestepped the fire, it is very likely we still would have had a serious problem, probably even a Loss of Crew (LOC) event shortly thereafter. If that LOC event occurred in orbit finding the root cause would have been extremely difficult and it may have delayed the program even further, possibly missing the end-of-the-decade mandate.

Truth be told, as horrific as it sounds, if Gus, Ed, and Roger had to die, then they died at the right time in the right place. We can take solace in the fact that their sacrifice probably enabled the moon landing as we know it today.
 
It's my understanding that Apollo 1 was more dangerous on the ground than it would have been in space?

because you had to keep the pure oxygen at higher pressure than you would in space, and maybe for other reasons as well
 
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