Why do rockets travel horizontally in space to other planets instead of travelling vertically? Is there nothing above and below the planets?

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Why do rockets travel horizontally in space to other planets instead of travelling vertically? Is there nothing above and below the planets?

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They go to the side so that they get into orbit. If it went directly up, it would just fall back down. The satelites we send up aren’t going ‘to the side’ and away from the earth, they are constantly going around it.

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