'Learning to fly R/C Helicopters back in the 70's having the machine topple over on landing was extremely common for all resulting in the end of your day's flying.
A very simple solution was to tie/tape two sticks about 1m long in a cross to the underside of the landing skids. With this you could still impact the ground with about 45 degrees of bank and a sideways drift and the thing just settled itself back on skids.
I am very surprised that there appears to have been little consideration for Odysseus not touching down perfectly? Simple solutions were available?