The U.S. will honor former President Jimmy Carter, who died on Dec. 29 at age 100, with an official state funeral on Thursday, Jan. 9.

President Joe Biden declared January 9 a national day of mourning to coincide with Carter’s state funeral at Wash

LITTLE ROCK (KATV) — Governor Sarah Sanders has proclaimed Thursday, Jan. 9 as President Jimmy Carter Day in Arkansas. WHEREAS: James “Jimmy” Earl Carter Jr., the 39th President of the United States, was born on October 1, 1924, in Plains, Georgia to Earl and Lillian Carter;

So, in July 1979, the nation was in a deep, Carter-induced funk. And Carter's reaction was to ... blame the nation. That was the theme of the "malaise" speech.

Carter made few contributions to NASA history, but a key decision helped shape 30 years of U.S. spaceflight. The longest-lived president in United States’ history, Jimmy Carter’s voice will continue to extend “into the cosmos” beyond his death at 100.