Move kerbals in KSP – to save Jebediah from an unjust fate

I'm hoping for some help. I'm fairly new to the game so please bare with me. I recently reloaded a quicksave instead of creating one by accident. According to How would one undo loading a quicksave in Kerbal Space Program? it's likely I've now lost the old state (didn't leave in time)

But to add insult to injury I quicksaved at a time when I had gotten a big lander back to Kerbin and wanted Jebediah to take a soil sample. I wasn't sure if he would survive the fall so I saved it prior to letting go of the ladder. However in the reload Jeb appears about a meter to the left of the lander and promptly falls to the ground and dies. I can accept my lost progress after this save but given all his science (and life) I'd really like to bring him home. I tried tweaking the quick save but every reload had the same effect.

Any help or advice on where to aim would be hugely appreciated…

Thanks!
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VESSEL
        {
            pid = 1dab3465e53d4bc89125c16c2e51e410
            name = Jebediah Kerman
            type = EVA
            sit = FLYING
            landed = False
            landedAt = 
            splashed = False
            met = 7.90000000735745
            lct = 2154667.37390431
            root = 0
            lat = 15.431993254746
            lon = -330.337250733857
            alt = 686.741724181804 <--- Tried editing this, nothing changed
            hgt = 1.991011
            nrm = -0.009900075,0.9233786,-0.3837628
            rot = -0.6215439,-0.1967535,0.3950912,-0.6472049
            CoM = 0,0,0
            stg = 0
            prst = False
            ref = 0
            cPch = 0.544
            cHdg = 2.27
            cMod = 0
            ORBIT
            {
                SMA = 301069.766658943
                ECC = 0.995174584633339
                INC = 15.4319930748073
                LPE = 270.000318325192
                LAN = -59.082056632706
                MNA = 3.14139282715152
                EPH = 2154675.29390432
                REF = 1
            }