Tom Hanks has honored the late Apollo 13 astronaut Jim Lovell, whom he portrayed in the Oscar-winning movie “Apollo 13.”

Lovell died Thursday at age 97 in Lake Forest, Illinois, according to The Guardian. Social media has since been flooded with tributes, with Hanks taking the lead. 

“There are people who dare, who dream, and who lead others to places we would not go on our own,” he wrote in an Instagram post of Lovell after the astronaut’s death was announced on Friday. “Jim Lovell, who for a long while had gone farther into space and for longer than any other person of our planet, was that kind of guy.”

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