Originally titled Rocket Number Nine, the album had acquired its present name, and the red-on-white sleeve by Claude Dangerfield, by 1969.

Rocket Number Nine points toward the music that the Arkestra would be playing on the lower East Side of New York City.

[1]When reissued by Evidence, Interstellar Low Ways was included as the second half of a CD that also featured the whole of Sun Ra and his Solar Arkestra Visits Planet Earth (1966).

"[1]In June 1960, their manager, Alton Abraham, secured the band a solid booking—their first since the Queen's Mansion gigs[1]—playing first Wednesdays and then five nights a week at the Wonder Inn, at 75th and Cottage Grove in Chicago.

[8]On other nights, the Arkestra would wear "purple blazers, white gloves, and beanies with propellers on top that lit up",[6] and would set off robots with flashing lights and wind-up flying saucers into the audience.