Why always “Rocket #9”?
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Because the other 8 don’t have cameras on them.
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Because that’s what 11 - 2 equals. Can’t change math. 
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Because, that’s why.
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I always assumed because of the Sun Ra song “Rocket Number Nine.”
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Rocket 88 was busy with the gals.
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The cameras on rockets 1-8 are all pointed at Uranus.
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A wizard did it.
[Well, that’s the go-to explanatory handwave answer for such questions, no?]
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It’s the only one they can keep working. Why? It’s the only one they have the plans for.
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It’s just a show, you should really just relax! 
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[quietly wonders if anyone has ever, in fact, relaxed about the show after the theme song’s prompting to do so]
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It’s just like Plan 9. The other eight failed.
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Ah, for glayvin out loud…
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