Abstract
The 10th Asian Microgravity Symposium was successfully held in Seoul, South Korea. In all, 169 scientists participated from China, Japan, South Korea, Pakistan, Malaysia, and Saudi Arabia, as well as non-Asian countries (United States, Germany, and the Netherlands). This was the first symposium to which our society, the Japanese Society for Biological Sciences in Space joined as a co-organizer of the symposium; 10 members of our society participated in this symposium. Sessions for two different subgroups, life sciences and material sciences, were simultaneously conducted for three days. The various presentations documented the ongoing and future microgravity research and programs in each country, including the future research at the Chinese Space Station. This commentary summarized the historical overview of this symposium and the current status of space life sciences in Asia, and discussed the importance of this symposium.
