Shooting a gun on Earth towards space.

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Sorry for broken english I hope you understand me 🙂

I was wondering if its possible to shoot a handheld weapon or something “easy to get” and shoot it from Earth to get the bullet to hit the oxygen free space.

Is it even possible in any way or is it near impossible?

If so can this bullet become a high risk object that could damage or even destroy satellites once its in space?

Did we ever launch something to space without propelling it all the way up there? (once propelled on earth it doesnt get any more help flying up there)

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There is a legend how nuclear explosion test once launched a manhole cover into space.

While it certainly had the initial velocity to overcome gravity and go to space, more realistically it was just vaporised by atmosphere resistance and the force of blast.

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