Watch the Irish American family the Gallagher's deal with their alcoholic father Frank. Fiona, the eldest daughter, takes the role of parent to her five brothers and sisters. Lip, Ian, Debbie, Carl, and Liam (half white & half black) deal with life in the South Side projects of Chicago. Fiona balances her sex life and raising her siblings.
September 26, 2014 Larisa Ionova, Rossiyskaya Gazeta. Valentina Tereshkova, the worldâs first woman to go into space, made her landmark flight into the cosmos on June 16, 1963 aboard a Vostok-6 spacecraft. She is now a member of the Russian parliament, the State Duma.
The desire by Soviet Russia to send a woman into space was encapsulated in the diary of Lt General Kamami, head of the cosmonaut training programme, who wrote: âUnder no circumstances should an American become the first woman in space â this would be an insult of Soviet women.â In the end Russia beat the US by 20 years.