What if Werner von Braun had never lived?

While the basic concepts underlying conventional rocket technology were developed by Robert Godard in the 1920's, it was Werner von Braun who perfected them, and demonstrated their wide application under the Nazis and Adolf Hitler, in particular with the V2 rocket. Arguably, the conventional rocket paradigm has changed remarkably little since the V2 was developed in the early 1940's. This rocket, quite specifically, inspired the ballistic missile programs in the Soviet Union and the U.S., and, also the space programs of all nations of the world. Von Braun was a remarkably charismatic man, a brilliant engineer who also had the charm and aggressiveness to attract the attention of powerful and influential people to his designs and his ideas. He pushed for the idea of lunar exploration using conventional rocketry in the 1950's, in the United States, eventually getting his way with the Apollo program, the culmination of his extraordinary career. Interestingly, even Von Braun never seriously suggested conventional rocketry as a means of human colonization of the planets. He knew the limitations of this paradigm, and, he was a realist, and, an honest man. Of course, many people in the 1960's questioned the desirability of even going to the moon using conventional rockets, because of the expense. There was little possibility of such activity being commercially viable. So, let's suppose Werner von Braun had never lived. How does this change things?