False Analogy
Sailing was well known and practiced for a thousand years or more, so Columbus' voyage was not a "science experiment."
Apollo 11's Saturn V rocket to the moon was the result of decades of research and experimentation. Plus, Apollo 8 and Apollo 10 had flown to the moon previously. They worked too.
But Apollo 13 didn't.
The "vaccines" aren't vaccines; they're supposed to mitigate the symptoms and length of illness. Vaccines prevent illness.
The "vaccines" ARE and experiment.
Hoss
The nay-sayers in Columbus’s day were saying that the voyage would take them off the edge of he earth or get them swallowed up by monsterous sea animals. Scurvy was a common result of long days at sea, which this mission required and men little understood. Yes, the three ships on this voyage were an experiment to prove the theory that it could be done. It is called human progress.