ISS leaking air

i am sure I am pretty naive, but I do love space, and have my
opinions, so here goes.

The way I look at it, the ISS is already up there, so why not use it
as much as possible? I think the ISS can be a great place to test
things close to Earth for preparing to go to the moon and beyond. I
mean what a great place obviously to find out more about long term
exposure to space travel, so we can learn more about what to expect on
long voyages, and still be in a relatively safe place if things go wrong.

It's to bad MIR went the way it did, but I guess as long as it was
there, the Russian program would have also been focussing on the MIR.

I think what needs to be done, is that we need to develop an
International space agency that oversees all nationally funded space
programs. I mean we have India, NASA, China, the European space
agency, (maybe more I don't know), and I am sure there could be a more
efficient way of doing things. Kind of like a United Nations or
something for space programs.

perhaps this sounds more like science fiction, but it just seems that
there is a lot of redundancy of progams around the world.

i just think we have to get away from thinking national, when it comes
to space, and that includes the way decisions are made.

Chris