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"Going to space" is a lot more than merely getting out of the atmosphere. You need to get orbital velocity, and a balloon isn't going to do that.

For an individual helium atom it's possible to pick up enough velocity to escape Earth's gravity. When they're all tied together in a balloon, that's not going to happen.



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