Check out Surveyor 7. "Laser beams from Earth are successfully detected by the craft's television camera in a special test of laser-pointing techniques."
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This photograph was taken by the on-board TV camera on the Surveyor VII spacecraft on January 21, 1968. The TV signals were sent back to JPL's Pasadena facility via the Goldstone Tracking Station near Barstow, California. The TV images were saved to a video recorder, and later transferred, frame-by- frame to 70mm black and white film. This frame is only one of the thousands of slow-scan images that were returned and saved. The TV scan lines on the original image interfered with the scanner processed to make the above image.
The image is of the crescent Earth (not Moon) as seen on the right, a small black artifact is seen just above center, and the two laser beams are to the left center. The left hand point is the laser from Table Mountain and the other is from the Kitt Peak facility. The beams were equivalent to a first magnitude star, as seen from the lunar surface.
During much of the TV imaging, Table Mountain's telescope was scanned from left to right to determine the size or width of the laser beam. The laser beam left the telescope as a 24-inch diameter collimated beam of light. As it passed through the Earth's atmosphere, the beam was apparently dispersed, and thus causing a larger sized image as seen from the moon.
Table Mountain Observatory, operated by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), is located just west of the town of Wrightwood, California at an elevation of 7500 feet.
