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The second man on the moon has married for the fourth time, with astronaut legend Buzz Aldrin announcing that he would marry his longtime girlfriend on her birthday. Aldrin, who turned 93 on Friday and was part of the historic first moon landing mission, made the sweet announcement to his new wife, who is 30 years his junior, on his Twitter account.

‘On my 93rd birthday and the day that Living Legends of Aviation will also honor me, I am pleased to announce that my longtime love, Dr. Anca Faur, and I have married. We were joined in holy matrimony in a small private ceremony in Los Angeles and we are as excited as eloping teenagers.

Dr. Faur, 63, currently works as the Executive Vice President of Buzz Aldrin Ventures LLC, with her LinkedIn page listing that she has worked for the company since 2019. She has a Ph.D. in chemical engineering from the University of Pittsburgh and at one point He was the treasurer of the California Hydrogen Business Council.

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Aldrin has been married and divorced three times before, to Joan Ann Archer from 1954 to 1974, to Beverly Van Zile from 1975 to 1978, and to Lois Driggs Cannon from 1988 to 2012. The second man to touch the moon’s surface has three children, James, Janice, and Andrew, with his first wife, Mrs. Archer.

He has a grandson, Jeffrey Schuss, by his daughter Janice, three great-grandchildren, and one great-granddaughter. On July 16, 1969, Mr. Aldrin, Neil Armstrong, and Michael Collins were launched from Earth into space on a mission like no other: the goal of landing humanity on the moon for the first time.

Mr. Aldrin is best known for saluting the US flag on the surface of the Moon during the Apollo 11 lunar mission. He retired from NASA in 1971 and in 1998 founded the ShareSpace Foundation, a nonprofit organization to promote the expansion of manned space exploration.

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The age of Buzz Aldrin is 93.

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Buzz Aldrin married for a fourth time at the age of 93

After entering the history books, Aldrin said that he fought through a dark moment during which he didn’t know what he should do with his life. He battled depression and alcoholism, but has now been sober for over 40 years. In 2002, Aldrin escaped assault charges after beating a man who demanded that he swear on a Bible that the moon landing was not staged.

Five years ago he also sued two of his children, Andrew and Janice, and his former business manager Christina Korp, alleging they had stolen money from him and maligned his estate by suggesting he suffered from dementia and Alzheimer’s disease. He dropped the lawsuit in 2019 after his two children withdrew their petition for guardianship of his affairs.

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In 2007, Aldrin said he had recently had a facelift and joked that the g-forces he was exposed to in space “caused a sagging double chin that needed attention,” while in 2016 he had to be evacuated from the South Pole. . after getting sick. The retired astronaut has also kept himself in the public eye by making cameo appearances on hit American TV shows like The Big Bang Theory, The Simpsons, and 30 Rock.

The Toy Story character Buzz Lightyear was even named after Mr. Aldrin. He has written several books but in recent years he has called for the colonization of Mars. The 92-year-old said a “great migration” is necessary not only for the sake of exploration but also for the continued survival of the human race.

Mr Aldrin made headlines last year after the jacket he wore on his historic first mission to the moon’s surface in 1969 was auctioned off to a bidder for nearly $2.8million (approximately £2.26million). The jacket was worn to and from the moon. It is the only piece of clothing from the space flight that has ever been available for private ownership.

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It displays Mr Aldrin’s name tag on the left breast above the Apollo 11 mission emblem, and the American flag on the left shoulder.  The jacket is made of a fire-resistant material known as Beta cloth that was incorporated in spacesuits in response to the fire that killed three astronauts aboard Apollo 1 in 1967, according to Sotheby’s.

The amount paid for the Apollo 11 Inflight Coverall Jacket is the highest for any American space-flown artifact sold at auction, according to Sotheby’s, which handled the sale.  It smashed pre-auction expectations by almost a third as bidders went crazy over the legendary jacket. The unidentified winner, who participated by phone, outlasted several others in a bidding that spanned almost 10 minutes.Read More….

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