Can a Sock Save a Spaceship?Overcoming the mental block that blinds us to solutions

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The Logic Glitch

Three astronauts were running out of air, and the only solution lay in a pile of incompatible spare parts. This episode revisits the Apollo 13 CO2 crisis to illustrate Functional Fixedness, a cognitive bias that blinds us to alternative uses for everyday objects. Discover how high-pressure creativity forced engineers to look past the labels on their equipment to save lives.