Their astronaut is going to die
Of course there are other ways
the Taiyang Shen booster Our engineers have run the numbers,
and it has enough fuel for a Mars injection orbit
Why hasn't NASA approached us?
They don't know
Our booster technology is classified.
So if we do nothing...
The world would never know we could have helped.
Then, for the sake of argument, let's say we decide to help them
We'd be giving up a booster and effectively cancelling Taiyang Shen.
We need to keep this among scientists, a co-operation between space agencies