functional programming research(theorists don't consider a language to be functional unless it has lambdas (anonymous functions), nested functions, and closures in addition to first-class (functions can be the inputs and outputs of other functions) and higher-order ( functions that take other functions as arguments) functions Alex_Odeychuk)
COSPAR(Committee on Space Research; объединение национальных научных учреждений и международных союзов, занимающихся проблемами космического пространства; основан в 1958 г. в Вашингтоне (Париж, Франция))