In the question How to make a green LED as visually bright as a 0 magnitude star? I worked out that a 100 mA green LED with a 10° half-angle 18 kilometers away would be as bright as a 0th magnitude star. So a 5 mW laser pointer with a miliradian divergence could potentially be seen even farther away, or at least photographed.
Question: Has anyone in space seen or photographed a laser pointer from Earth?
Note I'm asking about a laser pointer, not some high-powered laser used to bounce off of the Moon, or a powerful searchlight. Something that you can hold in your hand.