Tom Hanks is remembering the late Jim Lovell.

Following the news that astronaut Lovell died on Thursday at 97 , Hanks, who played Lovell in the 1995 film Apollo 13 , took to Instagram on Friday evening to share a tribute to the commander of Apollo 13.

“There are people who dare, who dream and who lead others to the places we would not go on our own. 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,” Hanks wrote on his post. “His many voyages around Earth and on to so-very-close to the moon were not made for riches or celebrity, but because such challenges as those are what fuels the course of being alive — and who better than Jim Lovell to make those voyages.”

Tom Hanks is remembering the late

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