Tom Hanks, who starred as astronaut Jim Lovell in Apollo 13, honored the space pioneer in an Instagram post Friday hours after Lovell died at 97. “There are people who dare, who dream, and who lead others to places we would not go on our own,” Hanks posted. “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 portrayed Lovell in the Oscar-winning film in 1995, which told the story of the brave astronauts on the ill-fated mission to the moon. While on board 200,000 miles from Earth, an explosion depleted the spacecraft’s oxygen supply, forcing Lovell to alert the ground crew: “Houston, we’ve had a problem.” After the explosion, the craft looped around the moon and landed safely in the Pacific. Lovell h

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