Retrieving a lost craft file if the craft exists intact in orbit?

[Discordic]

I'm pretty sure I've phrased the title horribly.

Anyway. I've accidentally saved over the craft file for a ship I quite like. However, a copy of that ship (less its lifter stage, which is the same one that I always use) is currently in orbit of kerbin in that same game.

I'm wondering- is there some way to retrieve the data for this ship from the game's persistent file, and copy it into a craft file? Or should I just get on with rebuilding it from scratch?

[sql_yoda]

I have the same issue right now. My only successful kethane lander, I accidentally overwrote. I don't remember exactly what I did to balance it correctly. I could take a screenshot and rebuild it with guesswork I suppose, but I was wondering if it could be retreived.

[adinfinitum]

I'm not exactly positive, but from what I've read the ship should be saved in almost the same format in the persistent file as they are in the .craft file.

So if you found the ship in the persistent, and looked through the .craft files of your other ships to get a feel for their layout, you should be able to at least make a .craft file for what's left of the ship up in orbit.