Why do space rockets not take off like planes (i.e. straight up vs sideways and up)?

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Why do space rockets not take off like planes (i.e. straight up vs sideways and up)?

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The simple answer is we don’t have a powerful enough fuel source and/or any reactor light enough to be carried into space with a craft similar to a plane.

Someone Smarter please elaborate and stop explaining how we deal with this inefficiency by barely escaping our atmosphere on controlled explosions.

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