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I didn't know that it was - but I would imagine they would do so to reduce the weight of the shuttle so it does not re-enter the atmosphere too quickly. If the fuel is something like liquid oxygen it would have no ill effects on the atmosphere.

== They dump fuel to reduce shuttle weight so it can decelerate faster in the Earth's atmosphere. It doesn't slow due to the dumping itself.

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