I’m Adam Wuerl and write very occasionally at veridical.net. As it says on the Twitters (@wuerl), 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, left after one term to get married,2 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'm currently the Director of Advanced Concepts and Strategy.
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.3
ve·rid·i·cal
/və’ridikəl/
adjective formal
- truthful.
- coinciding with reality.
“such memories are not necessarily veridical”
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née Andrews Space ↩
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NASA was awesome, but best decision ever. ↩
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“For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.” ↩