[ewoodrich]

Gemini 7 and 6A were manned launches on human-rated launch vehicles, so it isn't quite comparable yet.

[bfe]

Still, modern launch vehicle human ratings were only developed after the second Shuttle disaster, and are far beyond 1965 standards.

http://nodis3.gsfc.nasa.gov/displayDir.cfm?Internal_ID=N_PR_...

Falcon 9 v1.1 is almost certainly safer than the Titan II Gemini Launch Vehicle. As with prior Dragon flights, humans could have flown and been just fine.

[jessaustin]

It's comparable to any consecutive launches that occurred in the nearly five decades since.