I’m Adam Wuerl and write very occasionally at veridical.net. I’m an aerospace engineer, Star Wars nerd, PowerPoint hater, and family barista.
I studied aerospace engineering at the University of Washington and then Stanford. During my junior year I was a co-op at NASA Johnson Space Center then worked at Andrews Space while I finished undergrad. I spent nine years at Lockheed Martin (Sunnyvale, CA then Huntsville, AL), then moved to Seattle where I worked at Spaceflight Industries1 for five years before starting at Blue Origin, where I started as the Director of Advanced Concepts and Strategy and led the formulation for what became Blue Ring, Orbital Reef, Blue Moon, and several non-public efforts. I currently work on New Glenn, first as a Principle Aerospace Systems Architect focused on 9 × 4 and currently as the Director of Next-Generation Stage-Two Development.
I’ve worked on launch vehicles (mostly conceptual), satellites (all real), missile defense systems (some of both), and other things I can’t talk about.
If you want to know more, see my User’s Guide for Me.
The site name has two inspirations: veridical comes up frequently in writings on consciousness, which is one of my favorite topics; it also reminds me of a famous quote from Richard Feynman.2
ve·rid·i·cal
/və’ridikəl/
adjective formal
- truthful.
- coinciding with reality.
such memories are not necessarily veridical