No, because he played an important role in America’s human spaceflight program. (And he was American; he became a US citizen in 1955.)
Plus, man oh man, we’d have the theme song nailed.
“I just make the rockets,
I don’t know where they come down,
It’s not my department,
Says Werner von Braun.”
United Terran Ship FireDrake.
Haley’s comet was known as the Firedrake in medieval Europe, however one spells it.
UTS Sally Ride sounds good.
Nostromo
Yep. that too. 
Speaking of songs…
“Vhen the rockets go up, who cares vhere they come down? It’s not my department, says Wernher von Braun.”
UTS Fire Drake Equation. That does have a ring to it.
“UTS Flying Mother Nature’s Silver Seed to a New Home”
USS Roddenberry, USS Solow, USS Coon, USS Jeffries, USS Fontana.
What an alien thought.
Yes, but I saw what panache45 did. 
Danke.
Plus USS Justman.
We already have a Galileo probe, do we not?
After all the trouble he had with the church, “revenge is a dish best served cold”. 
Too bad he’d been long dead when his first vindications came. Well, at least I imagine some of his family members were around to see it.
Hmm. I don’t know anyone with the surname of Galilei. Does anyone? I just searched LinkedIn and that came up empty.
Hmm. (Looks up names of Culture vehicles.)
How about the USS* Passing By And Thought I’d Drop In*?
The Hannibal Twin-Eight
Catptain to co-pilot:
“Push the button Max!”
I suppose Xenophon may have somewhat negative connotations…
Hatari!
The Sagan!
Wasn’t there a Star Trek episode in the original series titled The Galileo Seven?