MP SPEAKS | I must congratulate the United States Space Agency (Nasa) for successfully landing a spacecraft and collecting samples of the soil on a meteorite situated so far away in space. Read here.

It is a fantastic achievement as it took the space vehicle more than three years to reach the meteorite, land on it, pick up some soil and then took off to ‘fly’ back to earth. It should take three years to return to earth.

It is a great feat. But we cannot know what the meteorite soil contains. We assume it would be of some elements that are found on earth.

But it could also be some matter that is harmful to us on earth...