You didn’t have to look far to find love space - Dr. Love, that is - in space this Valentine’s Day.

Seriously.

Dr. Stanley G. Love, 42, is in orbit right now aboard shuttle Atlantis as a spacewalker and robotic arm expert for NASA’s STS-122 mission to the International Space Station.

Astronauts Leland Melvin (left) and Stanley Love, both STS-122 mission specialists, take a moment for a photo on the aft flight deck of Space Shuttle Atlantis during flight day two activities of the STS-122 mission. Credit: NASA.

He will venture outside the station on Friday to make his second spacewalk, this one aimed at installing experiments to the station’s new Columbus lab, retrieving a broken gyroscope and photographing a damaged handrail that may have been struck by orbital debris.

Mission Control has dubbed the 2 millimeter ding “Love Crater.” During tomorrow’s spacewalk, Love is designated EV-3.

In honor of Valentine’s Day, Mission Control sent this list to Love and his crewmates with their daily mail. Let’s translate:

Top Space Valentines Ever Received

16) Wrap your RMS around me(RMS = shuttle robotic arm)
15) Wishing you a User Note free Valentine’s Day
14) You are No. 1 in my star catalog
13) I’m barber pole over you! (barber pole = a control panel indication)
12) You Direct Drive me wild!
11) Will you join me on my CEVIS built for two? (CEVIS = space stationary bike)
10) Meet me at the galley for a rehydrated date (Mmmm, space food)
9) Come run the Docking Sequence Cue Card with me
8 I go HI-Z over you!
7) Let’s Make some CO2 together … (I think that means breathing…)
6) My bits flip over you!!
5) True love stays tethered (just like spacewalking astronauts)
4) Command to my module, from your COL-CC (aww, that’s punny)
3) Your eyes sparkle brighter than a waste dump at sunrise
2) Meet me by the airlock handrail by the Crater of Love

… and the #1 space valentine ever received …

1) EV3, You complete me!

And that’s a Valentine’s Day wrap from NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. G’night folks.