Ex-ISRO chief AS Kiran Kumar gets France's highest civilian award

Former ISRO chairman AS Kiran Kumar was on Thursday conferred with France's highest civilian award 'Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur' for his contribution to India-France space cooperation. The Padma Shri awardee lead ISRO from 2015-2018 and has contributed to projects like India's first experimental remote sensing satellite, Bhaskara-1, launched in 1979 and even Chandrayaan-1 and Mangalyaan.