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To add to my previous comment, I think "The Brick Moon" (1869)
considered the question of making an artifical moon bright.

The "magnitude" of the actual Moon is given as -12.7.

The magnitude of the ISS is "up to" -6.  I don't
know if that's with guests staying.

I think Eandall Munroe wrote a thought experiment
od illuminating the Moon with an awful lot of
laser pointers.  It wouldn't be Randall if it
ended well.