Sam Adams brewing the first beer made with space hops

Confused article:

People have sent all kinds of living things into space in order to observe how the vacuum might affect them.

The vacuum has naught to do with it, we can create a a vacuum on earth a whole lot cheaper than sending seeds to space. “Micro-gravity” effects might come into play if you are actually growing something in space. It’s the radiation that will be altering the hop seeds - (and the astronauts no doubt).