Article: Nearly one small step too far; BUZZ HAD TO FIX MOON LANDER WITH BIRO.(News)

Byline: By MIKE SWAIN, Science Editor

THE astronauts who made the historic moon landing in 1969 almost ended up stranded there, new evidence reveals.

Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin accidentally snapped off the switch of a circuit breaker - and they could not take off again without it.

But Aldrin improvised by jamming the end of a ballpoint pen into the hole where the switch had been and the astronauts' landing module was able to lift off the moon's surface.

It was one ...

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