The problem with FAM is that it started out as mundane science fiction, if not explicitly than at least in execution. Mundane SF has “a believable use of technology and science as it exists at the time the story is written or a plausible extension of existing technology”. With your story grounded in real-world physics then questions about how they are going to solve a problem matter. But when you abandon that basis in plausible reality, the questions no longer matter.
How are the are the astrocosmokoreanauts going to survive 2 years on Mars? They are going to survive it by some hand-waving and barely mentioned/explained method that wouldn’t actually work. It doesn’t matter what it is, because it isn’t rooted in reality. Once you abandon real-world plausible solutions your might as well be Star Trek and come up with a new element/radiation type/polarity reversal in the final act of the episode that saves the day.
It is the same as with mysteries—once you start using solutions that aren’t possible and aren’t predictible, then there is no longer any point in thinking about what the solution will be.