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Second Moon Lander to Marry on 93rd Birthday; Aldrin said they were like teenagers

Washington: Doctor Edwin Buzz Aldrin, the American astronaut who landed on the moon for the first time, married at the age of 93. Buzz Aldrin made Dr. Anka Faure is his life partner after a long affair. Aldrin became the second person to set foot on the surface of the moon in 1969 with the Apollo 11 mission. He shared the photos on Twitter with the caption that the two tied the knot in a simple ceremony in Los Angeles.

“My longtime girlfriend, Dr. Anka Faure, and I got married on my 93rd birthday, with the blessings of the living legends of aviation. We were united in a small, private ceremony in Los Angeles, and we were as excited as runners in their teenagers.,” he noted. Many people responded to Aldrin’s tweet. A number of replies came in wishing Aldrin a happy birthday and joining in on the joyous occasion of his life.

Aldrin has been married and divorced three times before. Aldrin is one of the three surviving astronauts from the Apollo 11 mission. Aldrin landed on the moon nineteen minutes after Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon for the first time. After retiring from NASA in 1971, Aldrin founded the Share Space Foundation in 1998 to promote space exploration.