Array is a term that applies to programming. Array denotes a series of objects that are of the same size and type. These objects can be numerical (an integer or a floating-point, an integer with a decimal point) or alphabetical. Each of these objects...

For the microarray in genetics, see SNP array. In computer science an array is a data structure consisting of a group of elements that are accessed by indexing. In most programming languages each element has the same data type and the array occupies a...

Two astronauts stepped outside the international space station on an impromptu spacewalk Monday to try to fold up a stubborn, accordion-like solar array.Space shuttle Discovery's Robert Curbeam and Christer Fuglesang were assigned to get the jammed array to retract completely into a box. It was...

Two Discovery astronauts set out Monday on the shuttle mission's fourth spacewalk to unstick a jammed solar panel array on the International Space Station.U.S. astronaut Robert Curbeam has been on all four of the flight's spacewalks, a record for the most spacewalks conducted on a...

The space shuttle Discovery crew was awakened by the Beach Boys hit "Good Vibrations" on Monday to get them ready for a day of work trying to shake loose a jammed solar energy array.Two spacewalking astronauts were scheduled to work on the stuck solar wing,...

Two spacewalking astronauts finished folding up a stubborn, accordion-like solar array Monday, resolving the only complication in space shuttle Discovery's otherwise smooth mission to the international space station.Shuttle astronauts Robert Curbeam and Christer Fuglesang managed to get the last section of the 115-foot array folded...