Tom Hanks is remembering late astronaut Jim Lovell , whom he portrayed in the Oscar-winning film “Apollo 13,” as among the rare humans “who lead others to the places we would not go on our own.”

Hanks’ tribute followed that of NASA announcing the Apollo 13 mission commander died on Thursday in Lake Forest, Illinois, at the age of 97.

“There are people who dare, who dream, and who lead others to the places we would not go on our own,” Hanks wrote in a heartfelt post 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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Hanks clarified that Lovell’s “many voyages around Earth and … so-very-close to the moon were not made

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