Better yet, point it to the front.

I say the photons stream from the flashlight's bulb toward the rear of the ship. You don't "see" anything at all that isn't emitting its own light somewhere in fromt of the ship.

No. The ball's behavior is owed to wind resistance. In space there is no air, and light would not be affected by it much anyway.

Of course, if you were chasing the truck and they shot that baseball at you, it will still break your windshield.

Light always has the same speed regardless of the speed of the observer.

...and in order to travel at the speed of light you would pretty much need to be light, and as light you would have a hard time even understanding the consept of traveling, not because light is stupid, but because light reaches its destination in no time at all. This is because travel time (from the travelers point of view) approaches zero as the speed increases towards the speed of light. This is all due to relativistic effects that I must admit I do not fully understand... but as you can see I have no problems talking about it and presenting it as facts. =)

If an accident were to happen, he'd just shoot himself out of the launcher and into the soft clouds above. Hes got everything covered.

Echo echo echo echo...

The Driver is probably a paid professional driver who is required to wear the protective gear or else wouldn't be able to drive. Still, it looks unbalanced, what with the guy in the back wearing just a jump suit.