Astronaut Buzz Aldrin, the second man to walk on the moon, married a Romanian woman on the day he turned 93. During his career, Aldrin traveled to space three times and was the Eagle lunar module pilot for the Apollo 11 mission in 1969. He stepped on the surface of the moon 19 minutes after Neil Armstrong on July 20, 1969. He is the only survivor of the three astronauts in the Apollo 11 mission.

The astronaut himself announced this on Twitter and Facebook.

• “On my 93rd birthday and the day I will be honored to receive the Living Legends of Aviation Award, I am happy to announce that my love and longtime partner, Dr. Anka Fuhr, and I have been married,” the astronaut wrote.

He said the wedding was marked in a private ceremony in Los Angeles and that they were “excited like teenagers”.

Aldrin has been married three times and has three children, James, Janice and Andrew, from his first marriage to Joan Archer.

Who is the Romanian woman who became the wife of Buzz Aldrin?

Anka Faure is from Deva. He graduated from the chemical and technological faculty of the Polytechnic of Timisoara in 1983, writes Adevărul.

According to the cited source, she has a doctorate in chemistry, holds several patents and is a project manager at a British multinational specializing in chemical products.

About Buzz Aldrin, the second person after astronaut Neil Armstrong to walk on the moon

Edwin Eugene “Buzz” Aldrin Jr., the second man to walk on the moon after astronaut Neil Armstrong as part of the Apollo 11 mission, was born on January 20, 1930, in Montclair, New Jersey. His mother, Marion Moon, was the daughter of a military chaplain, and his father, Edwin Eugene Aldrin, was a pilot and officer in the US Army, writes Agerpres with reference to buzzaldrin.com. In the 80s, he officially changed his name to Buzz Aldrin. His younger sister, not being able to pronounce the word “brother” correctly, called him “buzzer”, and thus the nickname “Buzz” remained, the same site notes.

Aldrin graduated from Montclair High School in 1947 and graduated third in his class in 1951 with a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York. He then joined the US Air Force; after completing pilot training in 1952, he flew 62 sorties in Korea. In 1963, he received a doctorate in astronautics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), according to www.nmspacemuseum.org.

He became an astronaut in October 1963, as part of the third group of people selected by NASA to attempt a pioneering space flight. He was the first astronaut to earn a doctorate, and with his expertise, Aldrin was responsible for developing techniques for docking and reorienting spacecraft. He also pioneered underwater training techniques to simulate space travel, according to www.biography.com.

Aldrin and astronaut Jim Lovell were assigned to the Gemini 12 crew in 1966. During the November 11-15, 1966 flight, Astronaut Aldrin completed the longest and most successful five-hour spacewalk since then. He also manually recounted all of the shuttle’s docking maneuvers after the on-board radar failed. After Gemini 12, Aldrin was assigned to the Apollo 8 backup crew along with Neil Armstrong and Fred W. Hayes Jr.

Buzz Aldrin was the pilot of the Eagle module that reached the moon as part of the Apollo 11 mission, launched on July 16, 1969. A few days later, on July 20, 1969, mission commander Neil Armstrong became the first human. walk on the moon and then minutes away from Aldrin. Aldrin and Armstrong spent a total of 21 hours on the surface of the moon, collecting several kilograms of rocks. They returned aboard the Columbia command module in lunar orbit, piloted by Michael Collins. The mission ended on July 24, 1969, when the crew returned safely to Earth.

In 1971, Aldrin retired from the space program and returned to active duty in the Air Force. The following year, he retired as commanding officer of the US Air Force Flight School at Edwards Air Force Base, California, with the rank of colonel. In 2002, he was appointed as the President’s representative to the Commission on the Future of the American Aerospace Industry and remains a tireless advocate of space exploration.

Awarded numerous honors and awards, including: Presidential Medal of Freedom (1969); Robert J. Collier Trophy, Robert H. Goddard Memorial Trophy (1967); Gold Medal of the US Congress (2011). In addition, the asteroid “6470 Aldrin” was named in his honor and a crater on the moon bears his name. In 1982, Buzz Aldrin was inducted into the International Space Hall of Fame at the Space History Museum in New Mexico, USA.

Wrote the autobiography “Return to Earth” (1973), supplemented with memoirs “The Wonderful Desolation: The Long Journey Home from the Moon” (2009). He also wrote several books for children: “Reaching for the Moon” (2005), “Looking at the Stars” (2009 ) and Welcome to Mars: Making a Home on the Red Planet (2015); science fiction novels include The Return (2000) and Meeting Tiber (2004), co-written with writer John Barnes; People from Earth (1989), a book about the Apollo program. In 2016, he released his memoir No Dream Too Tall: Life Lessons from the Man Who Walked on the Moon.