 Why do Lloyd and Jones shoot at the narrator?
A you-are-there type of report? A pilot, co-pilot, navigator and biochemist. I've met all but the pilot (he's very busy today), and they seem friendly enough. Dwight Kroger, the biochemist, is rather old to take the "rigors of the journey," as he puts it, but the government had a choice between sending a green scientist who could stand the trip or an accomplished man who would probably not survive, so they picked Kroger. Jones (that's the co-pilot; I didn't quite catch his first name) is scarlet-faced, barrel-chested and gives the general appearance of belonging under the spreading chestnut tree, not in a metal bullet flinging itself out into airless space. The navigator's name is Lloyd Streeter, but I haven't seen his face yet. He keeps bent low over a welded-to-the-wall (they call it the bulkhead, for some reason or other) table, scratching away with a ballpoint pen on the maps, and now and then calling numbers over a microphone to the pilot. So far, he's still Captain Desmond to me. Jones (I still haven't learned his first name) has been up with the pilot all day. I asked to look, but he said not yet; the instrument panel is Top Secret. They'd have to cover it so I could look out the viewing screen, and they still need it for steering or something. October 3, 1960 I still don't know Jones' first name, though Pat spoke to him, and it sounded like Flants. Also, I am one of the first five men in the history of the world to see the opposite side of the Moon, with a bluish blurred crescent beyond it that Pat said was the Earth. Actually, he explained to me, the screen is supposed to keep the image of space locked into place no matter how much we spin. Lloyd mistook my queen-button for my bishop-button and left his king in jeopardy, and I checkmated him next move. When I got back to my compartment, Lloyd had taken away the chessboard and all his buttons. Pat slept mostly all day in his compartment, and Jones sat and watched the screen revolve. He says it may prove to be environmentally accurate, but that I should stick to prose. October 5, 1960 Learned Jones' first name.
 There was an alien lifeform following the narrator.
 After almost 9 months trapped on the ship together, the entire crew wanted to kill the narrator.  Lloyd and Jones were hallucinating and thought the narrator was an enemy combatant.  Lloyd and Jones were trying to scare the narrator.  There was an alien lifeform following the narrator.