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A typical NASA launch achieves orbit sometime in the 8-12 minute range. If you weren't worried about orbit (which requires a lot of horizontal speed) and just went straight up, at an acceleration of only 1g you could reach 100 km altitude, which is the usual (somewhat arbitrary) definition of where "space" begins, in about two minutes twenty seconds. This is also about how long it would take you to fall from 100 km and go splat if we ignore air resistance (if we're ignoring air resistance, you will go splat, a parachute won't help).

If you're climbing a ladder, it's going to take a bitlonger than that.

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