Heed them not. Director Michael Bay and producer Jerry Bruckheimer have crafted as fine an educational experience as you will find these days. They lied to us all those years.
Asteroids travel through space trailing iridescent spider webs and making whooshing noises.
But once a spaceship lands on that asteroid, it switches from whooshes to throaty growls. Sound travels easily in a vacuum. When disarming a nuclear weapon, it's never the red wire. The agency that put humans on the moon was exaggerating the difficulties and dangers it faced in that dramatic endeavor. NASA keeps extra portly-sized spacesuits on hand for the big and tall astronaut.