Okay kiddo, do you know what the moon is? It's a big round rock that orbits around the Earth, kind of like how you go around the playground on a swing.
Now, a lunar cycler is like a special spaceship that moves back and forth between the Earth and the Moon. It travels in an oval shaped path, kind of like drawing an egg.
The lunar cycler is important because it helps people travel from Earth to the Moon without using a lot of fuel. See, it takes a lot of energy to get a spaceship off the ground and out of Earth's atmosphere. But once the lunar cycler is in space, it can use the gravity from both the Earth and the Moon to keep it moving.
It's kind of like spinning a top. Once you start spinning it, it keeps moving because of the force of gravity. The lunar cycler is the same way. It doesn't need extra fuel to keep moving back and forth between the Earth and the Moon.
So that's what a lunar cycler is, a special spaceship that helps people travel between the Earth and the Moon by using the force of gravity.