"Buran" is the orbital space plane of the Soviet reusable transport space system created within the Energy-Buran program. On November 15, 1988 "Buran" made its first and only space flight in the pilotless mode. The fact of the flight of spacecraft in space and its descent to Earth in the automatic mode under control of the on-board computer was included into the Guinness Book of Records. The spaceship was started from Baikonur Spaceport with the support of rocket "Energy".

Bi-colored (composite) coin has the round form consisted of the concentric situated ring and disk. The internal disk of coin is made of tantalum, with application of technology of changing color on golden, an external ring from silver.