Buzz Aldrin, the second astronaut to set foot on the Moon, marries his girlfriend 30 years his junior on his 93rd birthday

Legendary Apollo 11 astronaut

, the second person to set foot on the Moon, announced that he married his longtime girlfriend on Friday the 20th, her 93rd birthday.

Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin and Anca Faur,

executive vice president of Buzz Aldrin Ventures, were married in a private ceremony.

"On my 93rd birthday (...) I am pleased to announce that my longtime love Dr. Anca Faur and I have married," Aldrin tweeted, along with photos of him and Faur, who is reportedly 63. years.

"We were joined in holy matrimony in a small private ceremony in Los Angeles and we are as excited as eloping teenagers," added the astronaut. 

The tweet was accompanied by two snapshots of the private ceremony, which showed the bride in a white, stone-embellished gown.

For his part, Aldrin looked dapper in a black suit paired with a bow tie.

Fauer, born in Romania, currently serves as Executive Vice President of Buzz Aldrin Ventures.

He earned a Ph.D. in chemical engineering from the University of Pittsburgh.

It is not the first time that astronaut Aldrin says "Yes, I accept", recalls The Post.

Aldrin was previously married three times, marrying his first wife, Joan Archer, in 1954. The couple had three children: James, Janice, and Andrew, before the marriage ended in divorce in 1974.

Aldrin later married his second wife, Beverly Van Zile, in 1975, but their union fell apart just three years later.

In this file photo taken in 2019, former NASA astronaut Buzz Aldrin arrives with his girlfriend Anca Faur for an Apollo 11 anniversary celebration dinner at the Davidson Center for Space Exploration at the US Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville. , Alabama.. (Photo by Loren ELLIOTT / AFP)

A decade later, Buzz Aldrin found love with his third wife, Lois Driggs Cannon.

The couple were married for 24 years before divorcing in 2012.

Aldrin rose to fame, literally, after completing three spacewalks during his glittering career as an astronaut.

According to his LinkedIn profile, Faur earned a Ph.D. in chemical engineering from the University of Pittsburgh in 1996, and before joining Buzz Aldrin Ventures he worked for Union Carbide and Johnson Matthey.

She was also the treasurer of the California Hydrogen Business Council.

In this July 20, 1969 photo provided by NASA, astronaut Buzz Aldrin Jr. poses for a photo next to the United States flag on the Moon during the Apollo 11 mission. (Neil Armstrong/NASA via AP)

Aldrin's three previous marriages

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The American astronaut is

, during which he and Neil Armstrong became the first people to set foot on the Moon, on July 20, 1969.

Aldrin went down to the Moon right after Armstrong

.

The mission's third crew member, Michael Collins, remained in lunar orbit in the command module Columbia, the only means of transportation the astronauts had to return to Earth.

Collins died in April 2021 and Armstrong in 2012.

Aldrin rose to fame, literally, after completing three spacewalks during his glittering career as an astronaut.

Since he retired from NASA in 1971, Buzz Aldrin has been a strong advocate of space exploration.

is named in his honor.

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