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.
When she was 32, Ride blasted off on the STS-7 mission of the space shuttle Challenger, breaking through the highest glass ceiling for U.S. women to date. During her historic mission, which deployed two communications satellites, Ride also became the first woman to use the shuttle's robotic arm in space.