December 25, 2016 | PG | 2h 7m There was an African-American woman in the 1960s whose math skills not only outstripped all her male rocket-scientist colleagues at NASA, but also out-computed NASA’s gigantic, room-sized IBM computer. This is how we spell role model. Her staggeringly accurate calculations were solely responsible for sending America’s most famous astronaut into orbit and saving his life, and for keeping America from embarrassing itself in front of its heretofore superior, Cold War space-competitor, the mighty Russians. At first glance, the movie title “Hidden Figures” appears rather blah and generic. Perhaps it should have been the titular counterpart to “Men of Honor,” about the first black Navy diver and been titled “Women of Honor,” since it’s about the first black, female mathematicians and engineers at NASA—because there wasn’t just one; there were three such math-brilliant African-American women working in the early-stage astronaut program during the …