Beijing. An agreement between the Italian Space Agency (ASI) and China Manned Space Agency (CMSA) for new scientific experiments on board the Chinese space station for human flight. The agreement was signed in Beijing by the President of ASI, Roberto Battiston, and the general manager of CMSA, Wang Zhaoyao, on the occasion of the Italian President Sergio Mattarella’s state visit to China. The scientific collaboration is to study long-term astronaut missions, in particular on aspects of biomedicine, physiology and related technologies (9Colonne).