The latest issue of the SKA Observatory’s magazine Contact commemorates the SKAO’s major involvement in the IAU General Assembly 2024 in Cape Town, the first to be held on the African continent. Articles cover the SKA Science Day held during the IAU GA, the SKA Pavilion, the Cosmic Echoes art exhibition and a visit to the SKA-Mid site in the Karoo. Other articles provide updates on contruction activities with SKA-Low and SKA-Mid, report on the addition of Canada, India, and Germany to full membership of the SKAO, and describe the book launch of The Square Kilometre Array – A Science Mega-Project in the Making .