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:
“People often imagine that being hard to please confers a certain superiority.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don’t start measuring her limbs.”
—Pablo Picasso (1881–1973)