Need some help with saving a mission

[GoDores]

I was testing out a new rover and heavy lander design on the Mun and due to the test nature of the mission was using lots of quicksaves. My last quicksave was after I put Jeb, Bill, and Bob into the seats of the rover as it was parked by my lander. After yet another incident I wanted to retry, I used the quickload. The rover regenerated half upside down and buried into the Munar surface, and after a couple seconds it generated lots of explodey noises and either killed Bill or at least permanently buried him under the surface. I've reloaded the same save probably ten times but with the same result.

How do I fix or properly use the current quicksave? I can live with losing the rover but I don't want to use any of the Kerbals; I just pulled them off of my space station so they could be actively involved in new flights. The rover was just sitting on the surface right side up, not moving, with everyone properly seated when I made the save so I have no idea why it reloads upside down, and I can't switch to it with [ or ] before it starts to explode.

[GoDores]

Update: when I reload the save, if I immediately hit Esc and end the flight, it deletes the rover and (presumably) returns the flight crew to home. This is the option I'll use if I can't make the rover reload correctly, but I would really rather make everything work so I can finish my tests and properly return the crew to Kerbin.

[Scotius]

Short of editing quicksave and placing rover 1 meter above the surface i can see no other option.

[GoDores]

How does one do that? Would it get the thing right side up again? And what caused this in the first place?