Hollywood star Tom Hanks has paid tribute to Apollo 13 astronaut Jim Lovell, whom he portrayed in the 1995 Oscar-nominated film “Apollo 13.”

“There are people who dare, who dream, and who lead others to places we would not go on our own,” Hanks said of Lovell, who died this week, aged 97 .

“Jim Lovell, who had for a long while gone farther into space and longer for any other person of our planet, was that kind of guy,” Hanks posted to Instagram .

Lovell’s “many voyages around Earth, and on to so-very-close to the moon, were not made for riches or celebrity,” he continued. “But because such challenges as those are what fuels the course of being alive.”

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