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Did Neil Armstrong really bust a circuit breaker on the LM?
I was following a link given as an answer to one of those moon hoax questions and came upon this --
"Mr. Armstrong insisted that they had left out an "a". Sure, he had been awake for 24 hours before his epoch-marking pronouncement, battling lunar stage fright in front of the world's largest audience ever, and was mulling over the fact that while putting on his bulky space suit he had broken the circuit breaker for the switch to start the Eagle's engine for ascent."
I've never heard that before. Did he actually damage a switch in some way?
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- phoenixshadeLv 51 decade agoFavorite Answer
It was Buzz Aldrin who broke the switch (a circuit breaker for the ascent engine), and it was after they had walked on the lunar surface, not before. But yes, it did happen.
Had the switch been broken irreparably, the astronauts would not have been stranded (as I've seen stated elsewhere). The astronauts would have rewired the control panel, bypassing the switch.
- laurahal42Lv 61 decade ago
It was actually Buzz Aldrin who bumped the switch and broke it. They "repaired" it with a space pen. This is well-documented.
Source(s): All the usual references.