There was at least one mission to retrieve a satellite (not Soviet): https://www.nytimes.com/1990/01/07/us/space-shuttle-poised-to-begin-mission-to-retrieve-a-

There was at least one mission to retrieve a satellite (not Soviet): https://www.nytimes.com/1990/01/07/us/space-shuttle-poised-to-begin-mission-to-retrieve-a-satellite.html https://www.nytimes.com/1990/01/07/us/space-shuttle-poised-t...