Buzz Aldrin’s wife, Anca Faur, has passed away aged 66 – just two years after the couple tied the knot.

The former astronaut and Faur’s families announced the devastating news in a statement shared to Facebook on Wednesday. They revealed she died “peacefully” on Tuesday, Oct. 28.

“Dr. Anca Aldrin, wife of astronaut Buzz Aldrin, peacefully passed away last night with her husband and her son, Vlad Ghenciu by her side,” her loved ones shared.

Buzz Aldrin and Anca Faur in Phoenix, Arizona, on March 23, 2019. Getty Images for Celebrity Fight Night

Faur and Aldrin attend a ceremony ahead of the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11 at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum in Yorba Linda, California, on July 23, 2019. Getty Images

“Mrs. Aldrin, an accomplished chemical engineer with

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