Create an accurate summary of Marilyn Lee Cross and her reasons for being aboard the EDS. Provide your answer in two to three sentences.

Marilyn Lee Cross is one of the characters in the short fiction story with the title "The Cold Equations". It appeared first on August 1954 issue of "Astounding Science Fiction". Marilyn Lee Cross is a girl in her teens wearing white gypsy sandals, the stowaway in the EDS. According to her, she did that because she wanted to see her brother whom she have not seen for ten years. Her brother worked in Woden as government survey crew on a government survey work and she must have missed him so much that's why she hid into the vessel.