Former astronaut Buzz Aldrin has lost his wife just two years after the couple got married.

Anca Faur, 66, died peacefully Tuesday night “with her husband and her son, Vlad Ghenciu by her side,” a post on Aldrin’s Facebook reads.

“Mrs. Aldrin, an accomplished chemical engineer with a Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh, served as the treasurer for the California Hydrogen Business Council and as Executive Vice President of Buzz Aldrin Ventures LLC,” the post read.

“I am so fortunate to have found and married the love of my life,” Aldrin wrote in a statement. “She brought joy to everything we did together. I will miss her dearly.”

Her family requests privacy in their time of mourning. Additional details about her death were not immediately available.

Aldrin, 95, met Faur at a work

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