On Tuesday, August 7, 2012 11:10:58 PM UTC-5, Val Kraut wrote:

Remember LM was designed with many backup modes to assure success.
Supposidly Armstrong had a restless night - the engineers on the
ground knew the procedures would work.

....And then there's the final alternative: pop the panel off, flip the breaker with the pen, launch, and once the AM reached orbit, clip the wires to the breaker. Barring the lack of a pen, clip the wires, strip the insulation - with teeth if necessary - twist the wires together, launch, orbit, clip, dock, return home.

In polite circles, we called this "Romulan Engineering".

OM