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Let's say that there is no Apollo 1 fire on 27 January 1967. So, Grissom, white and Chaffee fly their scheduled mission in February that same year.

Given that:

1) What is the earliest that NASA can fly a full-on moon landing mission? Without the delays caused by the fire in OTL, could this happened in the same time frame as Apollo 8 did in OTL?

2) How probably is it to have Grissom work through the crew rotation to be the commander of that first landing mission? (I've read that Deke Slayton intended to have Grissom in this role, but don't how hard and fast that intent might have been against any other factors in play at the time)
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