Is it possible to build a rocket so tall the top part spawns at orbital altitude?

[szputnyik]

This angle of approach would be like building a car so long, its trunk reaches the supermarket, or building a ship so long, it stretches from London to New York.

[Croak90]

This angle of approach would be like building a car so long, its trunk reaches the supermarket, or building a ship so long, it stretches from London to New York.

And it looks freakin amazing on the Launchpad.

[tstehler1]

As amazing as it may look, I'd never build one of these monsters myself... Ain't nobody got time/CPU speed for that.

[Motokid600]

The Lazor system easily allows you to change the draw distance at the space center screen. I use the max. 100,000 meter draw distance allows me to watch my rockets launch to orbit from the ground. So if you had a beefy enough machine you can do it. The only problem as others have said is lack of speed. Once you launched the rocket it would fall back into the atmosphere before gaining enough horizontal speed to power out of the fall. The more TwR the less you'll fall back. It'd still save a few km/s of DV though id imagine.

You'd be much better doing high altitude launches with the airship/balloon mod. Forget the name..