While Betteridge’s law of headlines applies and the answer is “No”, the article still has a few interesting points:

Maiwald’s team make some recommendations to help speed thing up. One is to launch uncrewed missions first, to test the reliability of the technology for making oxygen and rocket fuel, for example, or for growing crops on Mars.

A second recommendation is to launch one-way cargo versions of Starship to place all the required infrastructure and supplies on the surface before astronauts reach Mars. Rather than the crew bringing with them habitats that need to be assembled once on the Red Planet, the cargo Starships could be used as habitats instead.

A third recommendation is to focus on developing life-support systems that can get as close to a 100% recovery rate of consumables as possible. Maiwald’s team say that this is mandatory, since there’s no way a successful mission can be launched without accomplishing this.

Their final recommendation is to include international partners who can help develop the technology and provide funding, albeit with the caveat that international politics and agendas add an extra layer of bureaucracy that can slow the process down. However, since Trump’s claim that going to Mars is the manifest destiny (in itself a problematic phrase) of Americans, it remains to be seen how much the United States will want to work with other countries on such a mission.