Now if you have more funding available for such projects then it more or less depends on who's got the better organization and support as to how things go. Only the USSR had invested funding in military missiles enough to be in a position to take advantage of them when they became available. Britain simply didn't have the money while the US had cut back its military funding to the point where almost all research ground to a halt till after the Korean war broke out. And that latter was the main issue since of the nations looking into the idea only the USSR actually was willing to spend the needed money to proceed. Britain's Megaroc, (mentioned in the article) the US's ' World Circling Spaceship' study from RAND, as well as work in the USSR all agreed that the concept was plausible if not workable given time and money. Of course by 1946 almost everyone was TRYING to suggest a plausible way to proceed with the idea.

While 'technically' putting someone in 'space' it's questionable if it could be done in a manner to allow the person to survive the journey. It wasn't like there was a shortage of volunteers to try its just that no one trusted the V2 that much. (Edit: Yep that was it, just a general review of the 'Megaroc' concept) This was a common ' suggestion' for users of the V2 be it Germany, the UK, USSR or the US. I'll have to read the article but I'd be surprised if it's not just the suggestion of putting a 'manned-capsule' on top of V2 in place of the warhead. (See below) As it was the V2 could do only suborbital flight at best. No the V2 could not have put any type of satellite into any kind of orbit, it didn't have the performance.

Nazi v2 rocket