Much like the Alien Space Cruiser featured yesterday, the design for this Space Commando Ship has been bantered around from one manufacturer to another. I can't say who copied who but it certainly made the rounds. Based on NASA glider designs, used to test flight and landing characteristics, the toy manufacturers added 'engines' to their toys and made them proper spaceships. HG Toys made these in essentially two colors: copper and silver, although I do have a sample that's in a much darker copper color and is the only one like it that I've seen.
Ed
Here's a photo of the HL-10 I took at Edwards AFB, CA back in 1982
Blue Galleon Space Glider
Mike Burrows from the Moonbase Central blog posted this photo from a Project SWORD catalog
From my collection: (L) Bluebird (M) HG Toys (R) Imperial Toys Apollo Moon Exploring
From my collection: (L) Zee Toys (R) Bluebird
The two are exact copies of each other
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Light Copper
Dark Copper
Silver
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