diff --git a/asfsmd/__init__.py b/asfsmd/__init__.py
index 1bf5f84..f9a8a49 100644
--- a/asfsmd/__init__.py
+++ b/asfsmd/__init__.py
@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@
 Small Python tool (`asfsmd`) that allows to download XML files containing
 Sentinel-1 products metadata from the ASF archive.
 
-Sentinel-1 products are stored in the ASF arcive as ZIP files that are
-quite large because they comntain both the products annotations and the
+Sentinel-1 products are stored in the ASF archive as ZIP files that are
+quite large because they contain both the products annotations and the
 binary image data.
 
 The `asfsmd` tool is able to retrieve only the relatively small annotation
diff --git a/asfsmd/core.py b/asfsmd/core.py
index 2d5d440..546411f 100644
--- a/asfsmd/core.py
+++ b/asfsmd/core.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-"""Core functiond for the ASF Sentinel-1 Metadata Download tool."""
+"""Core functions for the ASF Sentinel-1 Metadata Download tool."""
 
 import os
 import netrc