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Slew, slew, slew, slew, slew Gyroscopes spinning wildly I enter safe mode |
Five year extension Propellant tanks almost full Harvey is dancing |
I am the Archive Your data just went public No tenure for you |
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The Crab Nebula Does not pulse, or so I say A wiring error |
I am flying high Laughing at Space Telescope In low-Earth orbit |
I am a proton My energy may be low But I make it hurt |
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SIRTF will join me Great Observatories fly But where is Compton? |
My calorimeter In the Pacific Ocean ASTRO-E had it |
Cosmic ray, stay out You clutter my datasets Focal plane pirate |
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Pattern in the sky: Unstoppable Lissajous It makes me dizzy |
Leonids coming The wimps at mission control Make me close my eyes |
Different kind of chip: Back-side illuminated I will live longer |
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Falling, falling, fast Tracking gravity's rainbow Perigee has come |
One-half arc second My resolution is good Leon can relax |
Solar Maximum Makes my electronics sneeze Who picked the launch year? |
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Million degree gas Color coded red, blue, green For publication |
Three, two, one, zero Why is nothing happening? Another launch scrub |
Thermal vacuum test People are frantic with me I'm the ACIS door |
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Ready for action Astronaut Cady Coleman Pushes my buttons |
See Centaurus A Light delayed by centuries Maximum jet lag |
In Andromeda A new aspect solution The black hole has moved |
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I got an uplink Your quaternion is wrong Pagers start to beep |
Poems by Tom Calderwood, Chandra X-ray Center
Inspired by Clayton Carter's candy jar