New Shepard is a suborbital rocket, which means unlike orbital rockets where the spaceship circles the earth, it will be going up and down and the trip will be done in 11 minutes.
The task of extracting oxygen was accomplished by a toaster-size, experimental instrument aboard Perseverance called the Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment.
NASA's Perseverance rover will scour the Jezero region for fossilized remains of ancient microscopic life and collected samples will be returned to Earth.
In his book Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth' Avi Loeb lays out his theory about a space object that entered our solar system a few years ago.