Is it possible to slow down the speed of light  in a vaccum?
First of all, I know that light does indeed travel slower in a medium like air or water, but that's because the photons are bouncing off of the medium's particles and in different directions so the light beam as a whole is slowed down (or at least that's the classical explanation I've read somewhere).  But my question is about light traveling freely in the vacuum. What if an astronaut during a spacewalk switches on a flashlight towards the opposite direction he is moving. Will that light travel slower than normal?  If not, is there another way to make light move slower? For example, can you make a beam of light move so slow that you can visually perceive it being affected by gravity?
I'm studying special relativity and saw the 2 postulates of Einstein. The most remarkable one for me is the universal speed of light. Einstein postulated that the speed of light in vacuum is the same for all inertial observers, regardless of the motion of the source. But what if we are accelerating and we are changing from one inertial frame to another, how will we observe the speed of light? Is it still the same? I suggest it's not? Because I alread saw a small introduction to general relativity where the light will bend in a gravitational field and therefore also when you accelerate. So does the speed of light change because it bends?