A hard start is a rocketry term referring to an overpressure condition during start of a rocket engine at ignition. In the worst cases, this takes the form of an explosion.
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Famous quotes containing the words hard and/or start:
“For rhetoric, he could not ope
His mouth, but out there flew a trope;
And when he happen’d to break off
I’ th’ middle of his speech, or cough,
H’ had hard words ready to show why,
And tell what rules he did it by;”
—Samuel Butler (1612–1680)
“We got a right to climb out of the sewer and live like other people. We could start from scratch. Make every minute count twice for the one we lost.”
—Samuel Fuller (b. 1911)