The Angry Astronaut: "New 2033 NASA Mars Mission!! Powered by SpaceX and nuclear propulsion!!"

He's critical of Elon Musk's plans for getting to Mars. He likes the following mission architecture for the mission. Ironically, Starship would do the launches to set the thing up. The difference would entail the contruction of the architecture while still in Low Earth Orbit.

It's a fine plan, but it isn't for settling Mars. It is for exploring Mars.

He makes an assertion about the Sun's nasty tendency to spew radiation out into interplanetary space. This assertion was challenged in the comment section.

In any event, it is my opinion that SpaceX could use its rockets to build something that could traverse the distance more safely than the thing he's building now, while also completing his goal of settling Mars. The necessity would be for another spacecraft that would do that job. He should consider hypergolics, as they'd never boil off. Hypergolics have that virtue, as well as the virtue of simplicity. It would be relatively easy to make. He already has the SuperDraco engine, which uses hypergolics as fuel.