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Spaceships do make sounds ..... inside the spaceship
Everything else on the outside is dead quiet
In the Star Wars novels (IIRC this was established as early as ANH) sounds are generated by the computer to help you keep track of ships around you.
Yeah that's a common justification it seems. Elite: dangerous also has the same one. When your canopy gets blown off it actually stops the sounds too (and there's a giant hole in your HUD because it's also responsible for that)
Elite handled its hard sci-fi really well. I was never taken out of the immersion due to lore or believability.