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I mean you could stay in space, if you were to reach escape velocity. Heat might be an issue though.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Plumbbob
It is theorized now that heat was actually an issue for the steel bore cap that was shot by a nuke at over 150,000 mph, which very much exceeds escape velocity.
While its more or less of a joke about "shooting a manhole cover into space", some think that at least a tiny bit of that bore cap could have made it.