Sort of like their of Gateway. They could even launch missions to the lunar surface if they wanted.

What they should do is run a make/buy analysis for what activities they want to do in space. ITAR would be a problem but since Russia doesn’t have a good track record when it comes to developing new hardware lately, they really need to look at ways to cut out some of their inefficiencies.

Blair Ivey: I mean taking the station on a flight around the Moon. Any interplanetary spaceship has got to be as big as Mir, and they actually designed Mir with this in mind, minus the engines. I’m not saying the engineering is trivial, but if put enough fuel and engines on it you can make it work.

And someone will have to in order to go to Mars.

Do you mean the station itself could go to the Moon, or support flights?