"Birds in Space is this series of sculptures by this guy Constantin Brancusi. Some of them are marble, some are bronze, and they're huge, like nine feet tall. They don't look like real birds — they're just swoops. It's the illustration of movement. Birds. In space. It doesn't look anything like a bird. It just looks like flying."
"Birds can't fly in a vacuum. A bird in space is… it can't sing, and it can't fly, so it's not really much of a bird at all."
"There was this guy, Bruce McCandless — you might know him, he was the first person to do an untethered spacewalk. And he was prone to wandering off while on Earth, so you might think, maybe not the best guy to be our first attempt at freefloating in outer space. But the thing is, this guy was a birdwatcher, like really into birds, and he'd just get distracted watching them and… off he goes. So he was fine to be the first untethered astronaut, because there aren't any birds in space."
Birds in Space is (or eventually will be) a comic about a band of the same name, their first tour, and some other things (friendship, mostly).