Neil Armstrong the first manned Moon landing, and spent two and a half hours outside the spacecraft while Michael Collins remained in lunar orbit in the command and service module. When Armstrong stepped onto the lunar surface, he famously said: "That's one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind." Along with Collins and Aldrin, Armstrong was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Richard Nixon. President Jimmy Carter presented Armstrong with the Congressional Space Medal of Honor in 1978, and Armstrong and his former crewmates received a Congressional Gold Medal in 2009. After he resigned from NASA in
David Schoumacher David Schoumacher David Schoumacher ( ; born October 13, 1935) is a former newspaper and television journalist. He was also a television anchor in Washington D.C. from the 1950s until he retired. His newspaper journalism career was some twenty years from the 1950s to '70s, and then he became a television journalist, a correspondent on the 1968 Eugene McCarthy campaign, Vietnam War, the Watergate Trials, and interviewing astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins. As a reporter, Schoumacher worked for CBS, ABC, and finally WJLA-TV 7, a local channel in Washington and ABC affiliate. He worked for WJLA-TV from