"Father" of rocketry"? Hardly. A silly article mostly for sensationalism.
It's sort of hard for a person who died 6 years before NASA was created, and was fired from Aerojet about 17 years before NASA was created, to be considered written out of NASA HISTORY.
There are plenty of other people who were involved in rocketry pre-war and during the war that played more important roles than this guy, who DESERVE a lot more recognition.
On a different note, if anyone thinks Von Braun's contributions to America landing a man on the moon should be discounted (which is B.S., but I'm playing along for this example), then treat it like College football when a player is declared "ineligible" by the NCAA. So, the United States is stripped of the title for landing a man on the moon.
Really, I'm serious. Without Von Braun, it would have been many years, and maybe Russia would have done it first. If Von Braun had gone to Russia, and been allowed to do his thing, most likely Russia WOULD have made it to the moon first (However, for the most part, Russia mainly used their former German rocket scientists to help get Russia up to speed, but did not let them take nearly an active role as Von Braun's team was in the U.S. So, unless Korolev recognized what he would have had, and "adopted" Von Braun to be a key part of the Russian space program, then many of his talents and skills would have gone to waste).
- George Gassaway