Question with options: can we draw the following hypothesis from the context? 

Context:

This was, after all, Chuck Yeager, a guy with all the right stuff, the biggest top gun of them all, whose post-World War II exploits in the topsy-turvy world of supersonic air travel helped pave the way for space exploration.

Hypothesis: Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier in 1947.
Choose from: (1). yes. (2). no.
A:
(2).