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 explosion of the Challenger shuttle put a hold on applicants, but in 1987, she became one of the fifteen candidates selected out of more than 2,000 people. After a year of training, she became the first female African American astronaut. [Infographic: NASA's Space Shuttle â From Top to Bottom]