Accidently deleted a contract- can I hack it back in?

[Waxing_Kibbous]

I accepted a contract to rescue a Kerbal from Munar orbit, but when reviewing my contracts I accidentally hit the big red X (my confirmation popup pet peeve strikes again- when a scientist gathers data you get the are you sure? popup, when deleting an accepted contract you get nothing! gah! Popups in any software are rarely in the right places...). Anyhow, just wondering if the remnant of the contract is hanging around somewhere and if I can fudge it back in somehow.

In my quicksave.sfs I have this chunk of code, which I think could be it- if so where can I put it to make it active? (I suppose I could write over one of the crappy contracts that exist in the list to choose from) :

CONTRACT
            {
                guid = bce3a91b-9b3d-41e5-96c0-1687c4bf280f
                type = RecoverAsset
                prestige = 2
                seed = 610366082
                state = Offered
                agent = Rokea Inc
                deadlineType = Floating
                expiryType = Floating
                values = 49031.4776989796,69624698.332551,85700.1629892254,225160.692785572,87995.7008703231,0,13.1791,14,220628.070199842,0,0,0
                targetBody = 2
                kerbalName = Chaddan Kerman
                partName = landerCabinSmall
                partID = 0
                recoveryLocation = 1
                recoveryType = 1
                gender = 1
                PARAM
                {
                    name = AcquireCrew
                    state = Incomplete
                    values = 17820,0,0,6,0
                    title = Save Chaddan Kerman
                    winOn = 0
                }
                PARAM
                {
                    name = RecoverKerbal
                    state = Incomplete
                    values = 0,0,0,0,0
                    title = Recover Chaddan Kerman on Kerbin
                    failOn = All
                    winOn = All
                }
            }

Edited November 14, 2015 by Waxing_Kibbous

[FancyMouse]

Nope this is not the same contract - "state = offered" means the contract is the available in the first tab.

From my testing it seems the set of failed and cancelled contracts is not persisted - meaning that if you save&load those will get lost. So if you really want to get the exact same cancelled contract, your only option is to revert to previous saves that contains this contract - either directly start from there, or copy the corresponding CONTRACT{} section to the save you want to use.

[Waxing_Kibbous]

Yeah, I tried to reactivate it by overwriting a different contract but it didn't work, guess I need to be more careful next time, that poor Kerbal will never smell the sweet Kerbin air ever again.

[ceman]

dang i had the same thing happen with my very first satellite contract